Statistics, 3E

APPENDIXA

Solutions to “Practice Problems”

Chapter 1

1. Inferential statistics, because it would not be feasible to survey every Asian American household in the country. These results would be based on a sample of the population and used to make an inference on the entire population.

2. Inferential statistics, because it would not be feasible to survey every household in the country. These results would be based on a sample of the population and used to make an inference on the entire population.

3. Descriptive statistics, because Hank Aaron’s home run total is based on the entire population, which is every at-bat in his career.

4. Descriptive statistics, because the average SAT score would be based on the entire population, which is the incoming ...