Inferential and Descriptive

Two branches of statistics are________________ and ___________.

• engineering and chemistry

• mathematical and inferential

• inferential and descriptive

• hard and easy

A prediction has been made that the chance that a person will be robbed in a certain city is 15%.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

statistics consists of generalizing from samples to populations, performing estimations and hypothesis tests, determining relationships among variables, and making predictions.

• mathematical

• descriptive

• inferential

• population

Tell if the statement if Descriptive or Inferential

The chances of you getting a new car is about the same as passing your math class.

• Descriptive

• Inferential

Tell if the statement if Descriptive or Inferential

The Senior Citizens that live in Florida have better memories than the ones that live in Texas

• Inferential

• Descriptive

10% of college students are predicted to travel out the country during spring break.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

Which type of statistic is this? Using this product will burn 74% more calories.

• Descriptive

• Inferential

A professor at White Oak University found that over the past 10 years that the average number of students in a class is 22.6

• Inferential

• Descriptive

statistics consists of the collection, organization, summarization and presentation of data.

• mathematical

• descriptive

• inferential

• population

Tell if the statement if Descriptive or Inferential

From a past study it was found that the APR of a certain credit card averaged 12.83%

• Descriptive

• Inferential