Hours Spent at Water Park A 2-column table with 4 rows titled Hours Spent at Water Park. Column 1 is labeled Hours with entries 4, 5, 6, 7. Column 2 is labeled Tally with entries 4, 5, 3, 4. Write a statistical question that might have been asked to gather the data. Then explain why it is statistical.

Sample Response: Question: "How many hours did you spend at the water park today?" It is statistical because the responses will vary among individuals and the responses will be numeric.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Sample Response"

The question is: How much time do people spend in the water park?

It is a statistical because the answer comes from a sample instead of from the entire population.

Explanation:

Rewrite the table

Hours Spent at Water Park

Hours Tally

4 4

5 5

6 3

7 4

These data could be the results of a survey whose target was to detemine how many hours people spent at a water park.

The size of the sample should be the number of tally, which is 4 + 5 + 3 + 4 = 16.

And the question most likely was made at the exit of a water park, when the people were leaving the park.

Thus, the statistical question could be How much time do people spend in the water park?

It is a statistical because the survey is made to a sample of the people who went to the water park instead to all the people. All the people who go to the water park is the population about whom you want to determine how much time they spend in the water park, but, since it is impossible to survey all the people, you need to survey a sample.

The resulting values from a sample are named statistical. The values for an entire population are named parameters. A statistical permits to draw conclusions for populations using just one or more samples, which should be random samples.