Question

the favorite sports of students in a statistics class are shown in the following table. 1. frank - basketball 2. angelica - none 3. calvin - none 4. anas - baseball 5. marissa - football 6. harold - hockey 7. kat - none 8. amy - hockey 9. keith - none 10. gerardo - hockey 11. craig - none 12. damon - basketball a. suppose technology randomly selects the following values: 2, 5, 7, 11, 9, 3. use this random sample to find the proportion of students who prefer none. (type an integer or a simplified fraction.) if your result is used to describe the sample, is this part of descriptive or inferential statistics? explain. a. inferential statistics because it uses tables, graphs, or calculations about a sample to draw conclusions about only the sample b. inferential statistics because it is using information from a sample to draw conclusions about the entire population c. descriptive statistics because it uses tables, graphs, or calculations about a sample to draw conclusions about only the sample d. descriptive statistics because it is using information from a sample to draw conclusions about the entire population

Explanation:

Step1: Count total number of students in sample

The sample has 12 students.

Step2: Count number of students who prefer none

There are 5 students who prefer none.

Step3: Calculate proportion

The proportion is $\frac{5}{12}$.

Answer:

$\frac{5}{12}$