Answer:
Forty-seven percent is the statistic and 31% is the parameter
Step-by-step explanation:
Various terms are used in mathematics when it comes to carrying out particular studies in statistics.
A) Parameter
A parameter when is comes to statistical studies can be defined as the term that tells us more about a group or population of people.
B) Statistic
Statistic is a measure that tells us about is a characteristic of a sample or part of a given population.
In the above question, we are told that: a study of parents of kindergarteners included 349 parents who were chosen at random. Of these parents, 47% said they sent their children to pre-kindergarten. School records show that only 31% of parents of kindergarteners sent their children to pre- kindergarten.
According to the definition of Parameter and Statistic that I explained above,
A) The Parameter is 31% . This is
because it tell us about percentage ( a sample) of parents whose children are in kindergarten that sent their children to prekindergarten first.
B) The Statistic is 47% . This is because, it tell us about the percentage of parents that sent their children to prekindergarten.
