Determine whether the statement describes a descriptive or inferential statistic. A recent poll of 1971 home owners in West Virginia showed that the average price of a house in the U. S. is $319,000.

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Nataly Cole

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20 August, 22:54

Determine whether the statement describes a descriptive or inferential statistic. A recent poll of 1971 home owners in West Virginia showed that the average price of a house in the U. S. is $319,000.

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Carolina Glover · Answer 1

Inferential statistics

Step-by-step explanation:

When we conduct a poll, we aim to make a generalization about the population or units under study. The recent poll of 1971 home owners in West Virginia showed that the average (mean) price of house in the U. S. is $319,000.

Recall that this poll was conducted only in West Virginia but the result or finding of the poll is being generalized over the U. S. as a whole. Hence, we are using the sample (fraction) to determine the population (whole) of home owners in the U. S. This is what we call statistical inference or inferential statistics.