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.

The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert.

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

The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner.

The proportion of all customers who order dessert.

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

All customers who come to the restaurant.

a. Data

b. Sample

c. Population

d. Statistic

e. Parameter

f. Variable

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Itzel Snow

14 October, 18:16

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.

The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert.

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

The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner.

The proportion of all customers who order dessert.

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

All customers who come to the restaurant.

a. Data

b. Sample

c. Population

d. Statistic

e. Parameter

f. Variable

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Elyse Gibson · Answer 1

c. Population

Step-by-step explanation:

All customers who come to the restaurant are the population.

The 65 randomly selected customers are the sample.

The correct answer is:

c. Population