Question

1. determine if the survey question will result in categorical or numerical data. then decide if the question is statistical or not. if it is not, then rewrite the question to make it statistical.

a. what is each students favorite restaurant in my school?
b. what size shoes do you wear?
c. how many books have the students in my class read this month?
d. how fast can the sixth - graders run one mile?
e. how many times do you go to pe each week?
f. what is your favorite type of food?

1. describe the overall shape, spread, and center of the dot plot.
2. describe the overall shape, spread, and center of the histogram.

Explanation:

Step1: Recall statistical question definition

A statistical question has variability in the data that would be collected to answer it.

Step2: Analyze a. "What is each student's favorite restaurant in my school?"

This is categorical data and has variability among students, so it's statistical.

Step3: Analyze b. "What size shoes do you wear?"

Asking an individual is not statistical as it's a single - value question.

Step4: Analyze c. "What are the shoe - sizes of all students in my class?"

There will be a range of values, so it's statistical.

Step5: Analyze d. "How fast can the sixth - graders run one mile?"

There will be different running times among sixth - graders, so it's statistical.

Step6: Analyze e. "How many times do you go to PE each week?"

Asking an individual is not statistical.

Step7: Analyze f. "What is your favorite type of food?"

Asking an individual is not statistical.

Answer:

a. Statistical
b. Not Statistical
c. Statistical
d. Statistical
e. Not Statistical
f. Not Statistical