Olivia's+statistical+investigation

**__Participants:__** 36 year 7 and 8 students from Fairfield Intermediate were randomly surveyed because of their liking in reading books in the school library. **__Materials:__** Pen & paper were used to record data along with Internet access for graphing.
 * __Introduction:__** This investigation entitles finding out what types of books Fairfield Intermediate pupils enjoy reading. During this investigation, random ten to thirteen year old pupils at Fairfield Intermediate, who enjoy reading, will be questioned about their likings in books. It is hoped that once the outcome is known, the library can be extended to everyone’s likings. It is expected that most people would like fiction, chapter books that’s genre was science fiction. Once the outcome is known we will propose that the librarian should buy some more books with in the description.
 * __ Procedure: __** Randomly picked participants at the school library during lunch times were surveyed. They were asked to say if their book was Fiction or Non-fiction, If their book was a magazine, a chapter book, a picture book or a factual book. Then they were asked to state what the Genre of their book was. Results were recorded into a tally graph then transferred to column graphs (recorded below).
 * __ Results: __** The results were proved that most students read chapter, fiction books that were mixed Genres. To see the fiction and non-fiction results look at figures 7, 8, and 9. To see the results for the types of books see figures 4, 5 and 6. To see the results of the genres see figures 1, 2 and 3.