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 __________, because it is a number that can be computed from the sample of 104 children.

Answer 1

Answer:

Statistic

Step-by-step explanation:

-In statistics, a statistic is a characteristic or an attribute of a sample used to estimate or calculate the true values/characteristics of an entire population.

-The value 9.6 is only representative of the small sample size of 104 children.

-If the sample size is sufficient enough it can be used to calculate the population's mean, standard deviation and other Central Limit Theorem measures.