The sports section of the East Mule Shoe Gazette runs a weekly question that readers can answer online. After the local university's football squad was beaten by its rival for the forty-second straight season, the question was "Do you think that the coach needs to go?" Of the 182 people who responded, 89 percent said Yes.
The number 89 percent is a

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The number 89 percent represents a statistic, which is a numerical summary of a sample. It is not a parameter, which is a numerical summary of a population. Reliability refers to the consistency of results or measurements, which is not applicable in this context. Margin of error is a measure of the sampling error in a survey, which is not relevant to the given information.

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