Use the following information to answer the question. 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 participants in a recent large duathlon was 1.67 hours with a standard deviation of 0.25 hours. Suppose a random sample of 30 participants was taken and the mean finishing time was found to be 1.59 hours with a standard deviation of 0.30 hours.
-In this example, the numerical values of 1.67 hours and 0.25 hours are .
A) estimates
B) unbiased estimators
C) statistics
D) parameters

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The values 1.67 hours and 0.25 hours represent the mean and standard deviation of the entire population of participants, making them parameters.

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