For Exercises 58–64, state whether descriptive statistics or statistical inference was used, and explain why.

Question 1.67

59. According to the Department of Transportation, 60% of all automobile passengers wear seat belts. This is based on a survey of 1000 automobile passengers, of whom 600 wore seat belts.

1.2.59

Inferential statistics; the sample was used to draw a conclusion about the entire population.