Question

In order to estimate the typical amount of TV watched per day by students at her school of 1,000 students, a student has all of the students in her statistics class (30 students) take a short survey, finding that, on average, students in her statistics class report watching 1.2 hours of television per day.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) the number of hours of TV watched

2)  quantitative

3) Mean or Median

Completed details of Question

Additional details to the question are as below

1) Identify the variable measured on each student.

2) Is the variable categorical or quantitative?

3) Identify two statistics that the student could use to summarize the variable.

a) Mean or Median

b) Mean or Proportions

c) Mean or Mode

d) Median or Mode.

Explanation to the answer:

1) The variable measured on each student is the number of hours of TV watched

2) The variable is the amount of time, therefore it is quantitative.

3)  Quantitative data can be used compare the exact size and extent of difference in two quantities. Therefore, the two statistics that the student could use to summarize the variables would be Mean or Median. Mean will be the average time and Median will be the middle when the amount of time is ordered from least to greatest.