Question

Which of the following is an example of an open-ended question?

Are you interested in baseball?
Who is your favorite player?
Why do you think Willie Mays was such a good baseball player?
Do you know Willie Mays’ career batting average?

Answer 1

First we have to understand that open-ended question are questions that require more than one word answers. They can be answers in the form of a list, a few sentences or longer like a speech, a paragraph or an essay.

The open-ended question is option three. Why do you think Willie Mays was such a good baseball player?

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Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the example of an open-ended question is the following one: Why do you think Willie Mays was such a good baseball player?

Close-ended questions are those which can be answered with "yes" or "no" (1, 2 and 4). On contrary, open-ended questions are phrased with a statement that requires a response, they are not yes/no questions.