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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The university is using the sample data to make generalizations or inferences about the entire student parking population, which is the essence of inferential statistics.

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