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Undergraduate aining Time: 00:57:20 1 of 20 Questions An stion 3 of 205 Points) uestion: The chancellor of a major university was concerned about alcohol abuse on her campus and wanted to find out the proportion of students at he iversity who visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week. Her assistant took a random sample of 250 students. The portion of student e sample who visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week is an example of a A Summary table B Categorical variable C Parameter D Statistic

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D. Statistic

A statistic is the summary that we obtain from the sample that we studied. Here, 250 students is the sample and the proportion of students that visit campus bars on weekend from the 250 sample is the summary about the sample, making it the statistic.

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