As Part of an Economics Class Project, Students Were Asked

question 72

Multiple Choice

As part of an economics class project, students were asked to randomly select 500 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks from the Wall Street Journal. As part of the project, students were asked to summarize the current prices (also referred to as the closing price of the stock for a particular trading date) of the collected stocks using graphical and numerical techniques. Would this be an application of descriptive or inferential statistics?

• A) Descriptive statistics
• B) Inferential statistics

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