Use the Following Information to Answer Questions (1) - (4)

question 35

Essay

Use the following information to answer questions (1) - (4). A sprint duathlon consists of a 5 km run, a 20 km
bike ride, followed by another 5 km run. The mean finish time of all male participants in a recent large duathlon
was 1.54 hours with a standard deviation of 0.22 hours. The distribution of finish times for males is right-skewed.
Suppose that a sample of 30 randomly selected male participants is selected.
-Is the number 1.54 a statistic or parameter? Explain.

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