following are descriptive statistics EXCEPT A. 25% of those who took the licensure exam for teachers failed. B. Based from a study, smoking increases the risk of lung cancer. C. A recent survey of 2000 adults having an MBA reported that the average salary is more than $65,000 a year.

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1. The following are descriptive statistics EXCEPT
A. 25% of those who took the licensure exam for teachers failed.
B. Based from a study, smoking increases the risk of lung cancer.
C. A recent survey of 2000 adults having an MBA reported that the average salary is
more than $65,000 a year.
D. Last year’s attendance at Ateneo’s basketball game was 883, 452.

 

2. Why do we use inferential statistics?
A. Inferential statistics are used to help us to generalize from the sample to the whole
population.
B. Inferential statistics are used to help us to show the difference between the
sample and the whole population.
C. Inferential statistics are used to help us to compare the sample to the whole
population.
D. Inferential statistics is used to describe the sample.

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