Question

The average number of hours of sleep per night was 9.46 hours for a sample of 104 five to seven year-old children. The number 9.46 is a __________.

Answer 1

Statistic

Explanation:

Since, a characteristic of a sample is called statistic. It is used to estimate the value of a population parameter and can be computed from the sample.

Here, the sample is 104 children,

For which the average number of hours of sleep per night was 9.46 hours,

∵ 9.46 is the number that can be computed from the sample of 97 children.

Hence, the number 9.46 is a Statistic