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What is Data You get statistical data when you ask questions that have more than one answer The data are numbers that you can analyze You count the different answers and get numbers that you can analyze You can get data when you count the answers to questions Students might choose corn carrots or peppers as their favorite vegetable in a class survey Suppose each picture is a vote for that vegetable Each vote is a data value Count them 4
There are 20 votes or 20 data values Organize the data by counting the number of votes for each vegetable 8 Carrots 10 Corn 2 Peppers Statistics are all about the questions you ask the kind of answers you can get how you organize the answers and how you display and understand those answers 5
