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You must show all of your work to receive full credit. Suppose you want to estimate the proportion of US adults who prefer to buy organic produce. You randomly select 1200 adults and ask them their opinion (prefer organic/prefer non-organic/no preference). For each of the following, choose the best option that describes it. A) The 1200 selected adults that were surveyed a. population b. sample c. parameter d. statistic B) The proportion of all US adults who prefer to buy organic produce a. population b. sample c. parameter d. statistic C) The proportion among the 1200 adults selected that prefer to buy organic produce a. population b. sample c. parameter d. statistic D) All US adults a. population b. sample c. parameter d. statistic

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A) option d stastic

because it is used to estimate the population parameter value

here 1200 selected adults were population parameter

B) option a population

because it is the total observations comes into count

here all US comes into count as population

C) option b sample

because it is the set of observations drawn from population

here 1200 population that select a proportion among comes as sample

D) option a population

because it is the total observations comes into count

here all US comes under population

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