Question

Wilson did a survey to find the average shoe size of the students in his class. He asked the following question: What is the shoe size of the tallest student in the class? Is Wilson's question a statistical question, and why or why not?

Answer 1

Answer:

No, Wilson's question is not a statistical answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

What is the shoe size of the tallest student in the class?

No, Wilson's question is not a statistical answer.

A statistical question is that question which can have different answers. Like - what is the height of girls in a class?

Here, Wilson's question will have only one answer as the show size is a simple number. Moreover he has asked about the tallest student and it can be one student with one shoe size.

If he would have asked what is the shoe size of five tallest kids then it would have been statistical.

Answer 2

Wilson's question is not a statistical question because the students my not a have tall person in their class