In June of 2012, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed banning the sale of any reg-ular soda or other sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 oz. A fast food chain polled a random sample of 2500 of its regular customers and found that 63% opposed the ban, 28% supported the ban, and 9% had no opinion.
-The value 63% is a___.

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The value 63% is a statistic because it is a measure that describes a characteristic of a sample, not the entire population.