Two Thousand People Are Surveyed and Asked to Indicate, Using

Multiple Choice

Two thousand people are surveyed and asked to indicate, using a scale of 1 to 5, their preference for a particular brand of liquid dishwashing detergent.The responses are summarized using a bar graph that displays the total counts of each response (1 to 5) .The graph is used to predict the consumer response to a new detergent product.This is an example of:

A) inferential statistics.
B) simple random sampling.
C) pictorial statistics.
D) descriptive statistics.