Q1. How could Mussie and Ellie find out whether older people do more for charity than younger people?
A1. Search for the information on the internet, do a survey with people from both side by giving out questionnaires to them.
Q2. Why does Mussie think that these data prove him right? Why might Ellie think that these data do not prove him right?
A2. 1.) Because when he checked one of a charity website, he saw that older people donated more money than younger people so he thinks that he’s right.
2.) Because the data is only from one of the charity website so it might be different in other charity websites. She also see that the money the younger people are donating is increasing every year while the amount of money donated by older people decreases each year so she thought that if this goes on younger people might donate more. Also it only shows the amount of money people donate, it doesn’t show charity activities since younger people will be doing this more.
Q3.What questions should they ask?
A1. 1.) How old are you?
2.) How much money do you give to charity?
3.) How much time do you spend doing charity work?
4.) What type of charity activities do you do?
5.) What type of charities you donate money to?
Q4. How many questions should they hand out? Who do you think should fill in their questions?
A4. They should hand out evenly for the younger people and the older people so the result won’t be biased, it depends on the number of people they want to ask. Probably adults and teenagers.
Q5. Which software could Mussie and Ellie use to put the answer into the computer? How can they check that the data are correct? How could they reduce the number of errors of the data? What problems might there be if the data were typed incorrectly?
A5. 1.) Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet).
2.) They can double check the data and write them slowly and carefully.
3.) For preventing errors you can use Spell Check to check the spelling or add validation checks. For
age you can have ‘range check’ so the computer will check if the age is in the range you gave.
4.) -You might get the wrong result and it can get confusing since it’s not what you expected.
- Some of the data won’t be counted.
Q6. What is the best way for Ellie and Mussie to present their result?
A6. They can sort their result with a table and then add a suitable chart (pie chart).
