Question

A restaurant owner is interested in the proportion of his customers who order dessert. He looks at 65 randomly selected receipts. Match the vocabulary word with its corresponding example.

a. The proportion of all customers who order dessert.
b. All customers who come to the restaurant.
c. The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner.
d. The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert.
e. The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner
f. All customers who come to the restaurant

1. Statistic
2. Variable
3. Sample
4. Data
5. Population
6. Parameter

Answer 1

Options E and F are repeated but the correct thing should be;

e. The list of the 65 Yes or No answers for whether each customer ordered dessert.

f. The answer: Yes or No to whether a customer ordered dessert

Answer:

a. Parameter

b. Population

c. Sample

d. Statistic

e. Data

f. Variable

Explanation:

a. The proportion of all customers who order dessert: This is the parameter because it is the proportion of the population.

b. All customers who come to the restaurant: This is the population because it is from here that the sample was taken.

c. The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner: This is the sample because it was taken from the population.

d. The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert: This is the statistic because it represents a proportion of the sample.

e. The list of the 65 Yes or No answers for whether each customer ordered dessert: This is the data because it gives us information about the answers given.

f. The answer: Yes or No to whether a customer ordered dessert: This is the variable because it varies with with each customer.