Description
Assignment: Descriptive Statistics
Due Week 7 and worth 140 points
Visit one of the following newspapers’ websites: USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have a publication date during this quarter.
The article should use one of the following categories of descriptive statistics:
- Measures of Frequency - Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions
- Measures of Central Tendency - Mean, Median, Mode
- Measures of Dispersion or Variation - Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
- Measures of Position - Percentile, Quartiles
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
- Write a summary of the article.
- Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics.
- Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
- Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
- Format your paper according to the Strayer Writing Standards. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
Here's a template:
https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2774...
Explanation & Answer
Find the attached work, let me know in case you need edits or clarificationn.
Running head: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Descriptive Statistics
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DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
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Summary of the Article
The article explores the plans of the United States to cut tariffs on the remaining imports
of China. According to the information postulated in the article, the slapping of the tariffs on the
remaining Chinese goods will translate to addition of levies worthy $300 billion on the added
goods. Both China and the United States have engaged in trade blows for the sole purpose of
attracting and drawing American consumers. Even though China and the United States had a
plan of entering into trade agreements, it is vital to depict that the countries incepted trade
barriers which deterred them from accomplishing their deal.
The Chinese government declared its plans of imposing tariffs on the American products
worthy $60 billion following the declaration of the president of the United States to impose
tariffs on the Chinese products. The expansion of the US tariffs on the Chinese imports is likely
to increase the prices of various products such as televisions, cell phones, cameras and
sunglasses (Davidson, 2019). It is anticipated that the increase in the tariffs would trigger
corporations such as Walmart, Home Depot, Costco and Target are likely to hike the prices of
their products. Additionally, it is presumed that the importers will pass the tariffs to the
consumers and therefore the consumers will be triggered to incur a high cost in purch...
