Question

Determine which branch of statistics was used to make the following statement. Based on a sample of 2739 respondents, it is estimated that pet owners spent a total of 14 billion dollars on veterinarian care for their pets.

Answer 1

Descriptive statistics

Step-by-step explanation:

Descriptive statistics is a summary statistic of a data set used to describe or briefly tell the story of small or large amount of data. Descriptive statistics quantitatively summarizes data using coefficients such as values of from measures of central tendency: mean, mode etc. Descriptive statistics makes use of such things as charts, graphs to describe data. In other words, while descriptive statistics tells a data's story, inferential statistics makes predictions using data.