Raymond wants to estimate the percentage of parents that use cloth diapers. He asks a randomly selected group of 200 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers. What is the parameter?

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Dayanara Beasley

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4 April, 17:58

Raymond wants to estimate the percentage of parents that use cloth diapers. He asks a randomly selected group of 200 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers. What is the parameter?

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Carissa Malone · Answer 1

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Given : Raymond wants to estimate the percentage of parents that use cloth diapers. He asks a randomly selected group of 200 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers.

The parameter are the number which are used to represents the quantity of a particular characteristic in entire population.

We know that to estimate the percentage of success we use the proportion of success parameter "p".

Hence, the parameter here is "p", the proportion of parents that use cloth diapers.