Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big

question 40

Multiple Choice

Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a
Parking spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 250 students and
Carefully recorded their parking times. The university is interested in using the information from
The sample of 250 students collected to learn information about the entire student parking
Population. Would this be an application of descriptive or inferential statistics?

• A)Descriptive statistics
• B)Inferential statistics

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