standard_description: Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, “How old am I?” is not a statistical question, but “How old are the students in my school?” is a statistical question because one anticipates variability in students’ ages.
problem_activity: Task
Each student in a random sample of students at a local high school was categorized according to gender (male or female) and whether they supported a proposal to increase the length of the school day by 30 minutes (oppose, support, no opinion). The following table summarizes the data for this sample.
|        |        | Opinion on Proposal to Increase Length of School Day |         |            |       |
|--------|--------|------------------------------------------------------|---------|------------|-------|
|        |        |                        Oppose                        | Support | No Opinion | Total |
| Gender |  Male  |                          50                          |   40    |     20     |  110  |
|        | Female |                          40                          |   40    |     10     |  90   |
|        | Total  |                          90                          |   80    |     30     |  200  |
What proportion of the students in this sample are male?
What proportion of the students in this sample support the proposal?
What proportion of the males in this sample support the proposal?
What proportion of the students in this sample who support this proposal are male?
Interpret the following joint relative frequency in the context of this problem: 10/200.
Interpret the following marginal relative frequency in the context of this problem: 30/200.
Interpret the following conditional frequency in the context of this problem: 50/110.
Interpret the following conditional frequency in the context of this problem: 20/110.
Interpret the following conditional frequency in the context of this problem: 20/30.


aligns: no