In this topic, students continue developing their understanding of the statistical process by focusing on the second component of the process: data collection. They learn about samples, populations, censuses, parameters, and statistics. Students display data and compare the difference of the measures of center for two populations to their measures of variation. Then students draw conclusions about two populations using random samples.

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Standards
7.RP.3, 7.SP.5, 7.SP.6, 7.SP.7, 7.SP.7a, 7.SP.7b,

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