Given Information

• The statement: "The total amount of estimated losses from hurricane Hugo was $4.2 billion."

The given statement states that the losses from hurricane Hugo were $4.2 billion. It means that the estimated value given in the above statement tells nothing about the losses caused by the hurricanes. It is just approximating the losses of the particular hurricane Hugo thus, not making any inference about the population of hurricanes.

Hence, the given statement uses descriptive statistics.