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The 1275 students who accepted admission to Academic University in 2016 had an average SAT score of 1356. Is 1356 a population parameter or a sample statistic?

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Answer:

population parameter

Explanation:

A population is said to be category of individuals under study.

A population parameter is a numerical value which provides a summary to a measure of an average or percentage which describes the entire population under a study.

In a Normal Curve, the population parameter can be a population mean or population standard deviation , population proportion which represent the population.

The average SAT score of 1356 in the given study is a population parameter

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