Jamilla is interested in how many pizza slices the average teenage boy would eat for lunch.Thus,she asks 25 young men from her high school home room class and computes the average.This average would be called a ___________.

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The average computed by Jamilla from the sample of 25 young men in her high school home room class would be called a statistic. A statistic is a numerical summary of a sample. Parameters, on the other hand, are numerical summaries of populations. Measures of variability and dispersion refer to the spread or variation of data, and are not the appropriate terms to describe an average.

Jamilla Is Interested in How Many Pizza Slices the Average