While discussing the enormous number of high school drop outs, James observed

that our larger cities exhibit the highest rates of dropouts per capita.

He noted that in New
York City and Los Angeles alone, more than 35,000 students dropped out of school in
2008 . His use of the actual number of dropouts constitutes a use of _____.
A) descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) the median as the average
D) the mode as the average


A

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