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7)Gary surveyed 10 of the 50 people on the top floor and asked them about their favorite flavor of soda. Determine whether this is a population or sample. Describe the parameter and the statistic.

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A population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. A sample is the specific group that you will collect data from.

From the question, the 10 people that are being surveyed are referred to as the sample.

While a parameter is a fixed measure describing an entire population (a mass of all units under consideration that shares common characteristics) based on all the elements within that population, a statistic is a characteristic of a sample.

From the question, the survey results will give us the statistic: the flavors of soda the sample enjoys. From the survey results can be gotten the parameter, an extrapolation of the sample survey results for the entire population of 50.

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