Question

Lin wants to know how many games teenagers in the United States have on their phones.

What is the population for Lin's question?

Explain why collecting data for this population would be difficult.

Give an example of a sample Lin could use to help answer her question.

Answer 1

Answer:

Just over half of children in the United States — 53 percent — now own a smartphone by the age of 11. And 84 percent of teenagers now have their own phones, immersing themselves in a rich and complex world of experiences that adults sometimes need a lot of decoding to understand.

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003.