Question

after inspecting all of 10,000 bags of vegetables stored at a food company, it was found that 5,000 of the bags were spoiled. determine whether the given value is a statistic or a parameter. no answer text provided. a. statistic no answer text provided. b. parmeter

Explanation:

A parameter is a characteristic of a population. Here, the population is all 10,000 bags of vegetables, and we inspected the entire population (all 10,000 bags) to find that 5,000 were spoiled. Since we used the entire population to get this value, it is a parameter. A statistic would be a value from a sample (a subset of the population), but here we have data from the whole population.

Answer:

b. Parameter