Question

Ralph wants to estimate the percentage of coworkers that use the company's healthcare. He asks a randomly selected group of 200 coworkers whether or not they use the company's healthcare. What is the parameter?

a.the percentage of surveyed coworkers that use the company's healthcare

b.the 200 coworkers surveyed

c.specific "yes" or "no" responses to the survey

d.all coworkers that use the company's healthcare

e.the percentage of all coworkers that use the company's healthcare

Answer 1

e.

Explanation:

The parameter is used to measure the population or in other words the measurement taken from a population is known as parameter. Here, the population will be all the co-workers that use company's healthcare. The percentage calculated for all co-workers that use company's healthcare will be the measurement calculated from population. Thus, the parameter will be the percentage of all the co-workers that use the company's healthcare.