You Are the Owner of a Camping Site and Want

question 60

Multiple Choice

You are the owner of a camping site and want to estimate the average age of your customers.For this purpose,you select a representative sample of your clients and offer them a discount good for their next visit as compensation for filling out a short questionnaire that includes relevant age intervals.The average age of the customers who fill out the questionnaire is:

• A) a measurement
• B) data
• C) a statistic
• D) a parameter
• E) a census

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Definitions:

Optimal Foraging

The process of obtaining food in a manner that maximizes benefits and/or minimizes costs.

Reproductive Success

The number of offspring an organism or genetic trait produces over its lifetime, contributing to the genetic makeup of future generations.

Foraging Time

The period spent by an animal searching for and gathering food.

Territoriality

Behavior in animals that involves the establishment and defense of a territory to claim exclusive use and resources.