Which question can be addressed with a descriptive strategy?
A) What is the average number of hours of sleep that a typical college student gets each night?
B) Is there a relationship between the amount of sleep that college students get each night and the GPA of those college students?
C) Does increasing the hours of sleep college students get each night cause an increase in GPA?
D) Is there a relationship between college GPA and career choice after graduating?

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A descriptive strategy involves describing a particular phenomenon, characteristic or situation without manipulating any variables or attempting to determine causation. The question in choice A simply asks for a description of the average number of hours of sleep that a typical college student gets each night, which can be answered through the use of descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, and mode. The questions in choices B, C, and D all require inferential strategies to answer as they involve examining relationships, attempting to determine causation or making statistical inferences about populations based on samples.

Which Question Can Be Addressed with a Descriptive Strategy