______ describes the distribution of data.

• A. Inferential statistics
• B. Descriptive statistics
• C. Hypothesis
• D. Confidence interval

Answer: (B)

Descriptive statistics describe the distribution of data by summarizing its main features: how the values are spread, where they cluster, and the overall shape of the distribution. This includes measures of center (like the mean and median), measures of spread (such as range, variance, and standard deviation), and visuals (like histograms or box plots) that show skewness or outliers. These methods focus on the data you have gathered. Inferential statistics use the data to make conclusions about a larger population, a hypothesis is a specific statement tested with data, and a confidence interval gives a range where a population parameter is likely to lie with a certain level of confidence. So describing the distribution of data is the realm of descriptive statistics.