Question

For each statement, decide whether descriptive or inferential statistics were used.

a. A resent study showed that eating garlic can lower blood pressure. ___________________
b. The average number of students in a class at White Oak University is 22 _____

Answer 1

a. Inferential statistics

b. Descriptive statistics

Explanation:

statistics can be categorized into descriptive an inferential statistics. descriptive statistics makes use of a set of data for numerical calculations and provides conclusion based on those numerical calculation. this data could be collected using tables,graphs, and other means of data representation.

Inferential statistics however come up with conclusions and assumptions base on a sample data.

Examples of descriptive statistics are mean, median, mode, quartile, percentile. Thus option B is descriptive.

Option A however is inferential statistics since some assumptions were made based on the effect of garlic on blood pressure.