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read the passage below and answer the question that follows. a survey provided randomly to students at great mountain high school found that the administration has a 60% approval rating. which kind of statistic is offered? ○ descriptive ○ inferential ○ anecdotal ○ analogical
Descriptive statistics summarize or describe a dataset's features. Here, the 60% approval rating describes the survey results (students' opinion of the administration) from the sample. Inferential stats make predictions/inferences about a population from a sample, anecdotal is based on personal stories, and analogical uses comparisons. Since this is just summarizing the sample's data, it's descriptive.
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A. descriptive