A car is 180 inches long. A truck is 75% longer than the car. How long is the truck?
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Answer:
c) 72% is a statistic and 56% is a parameter.
Step-by-step explanation:
Previous concepts
A statistic or sample statistic "is any quantity computed from values in a sample", for example the sample mean, sample proportion and standard deviation
A parameter is "any numerical quantity that characterizes a given population or some aspect of it".
Solution to the problem
For this case we know that they select a sample of 663 registered voters and the sample proportion from these registered voters is:
representing the sample proportion of people who voted in the election
They info that they have is that the true proportion before is and that represent a value related to the population.
So on this case the 0.72 represent a statistic since represent the sample and the 0.52 is a value who represent the population for this case is a parameter.
So the correct option is:
c) 72% is a statistic and 56% is a parameter.