SOLUTION: The movie rating Web site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 92 percent of a sample of 39 movie critics hated the 2005 horror movie The Fog. Is the 92 percent figure a statistic or a pa

Question 605858: The movie rating Web site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 92 percent of a sample of 39 movie critics hated the 2005 horror movie The Fog. Is the 92 percent figure a statistic or a parameter?

A. Parameter

B. Statistic
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The movie rating Web site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 92 percent of a sample of 39 movie critics hated the 2005 horror movie The Fog

The key word of that sentence above is the word "sample". Whenever you're talking about a sample, you're going to be dealing with statistics. Examples of statistics are sample means and sample standard deviations.

Note: Parameters deal with populations.

So the answer is B. Statistic
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