Question

Determine whether or not the following question can be considered as a statistical question.

Are the girls in the 6th grade taller than the boys in the 6th grade?



Possible Answers:
No

Yes

Answer 1

Answer:

Possible Answer is Yes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Statistical questions are basically collecting the data and possessing  a variability in  that data Which helps to answer the Question.

In the given scenario,

There is variability because the students of same grade are going to be different in their heights. Most likely, some of the girls will be taller than the  boys, and some boys will be taller than the girls.

To answer this question,

we would have to find  height of the each students which are in 6th grade and prepare a frequency table , then find the mean  height of  the girls and the mean  height of the boys. Then we could make a conclusion about the given scenario.

Hence ,

It is possible to answer that question.

Answer 2

Yes
Because statistically girls hit puberty before boys while boys normally hit puberty later on but it’s yes because at that age girls are normally taller then boys