Pick a topic you would like to investigate. (A) What question would you ask (or what data would you collect) so that from your data you would calculate a mean? (B) What question would you ask (or what data would you collect) so that from your data you would calculate a proportion?
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For example, I could investigate the average age of students in a particular school. To collect the necessary data, I would ask each student their age and then calculate the mean by summing up all the ages and dividing by the total number of students. Show more…
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