Statistical questions, step by step

“How old is the oldest student in my class?” has one answer.

The question

Which one is a statistical question?

Is it a statistical question?

same answer every timenot statistical
a different answer each timestatistical
find the one that VARIES
What does a loaf of bread cost at the stores in town?
  1. Try each one out loud and ask: would I get the SAME answer every time, or a different one each time I asked?
  2. Three of these have a single answer. One gives a different answer each time.
  3. What does a loaf of bread cost at the stores in town? — the stores in town charge different prices; the others have one answer each.

How it works.

  1. 01

    Try each one out loud and ask: would I get the SAME answer every time, or a different one each time I asked?

  2. 02

    Three of these have a single answer. One gives a different answer each time.

  3. 03

    What does a loaf of bread cost at the stores in town? — the stores in town charge different prices; the others have one answer each.