Researchers Are Interested in Learning More About the Age of Women

question 13

Multiple Choice

Researchers are interested in learning more about the age of women when they marry for the first time so they survey 500 married or divorced women and ask them how old they were when they first married. The collection of the ages of the 500 women when they first married is a .

• A)Parameter
• B)Sample
• C)Statistic
• D)Population

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