a researcher would like to estimate the proportion of law school students that pass the bar...
a researcher would like to estimate the proportion of law school students that pass the bar exam. They randomly select 120 law school students and find that 102 passed the exam.
a. What is the population?
b. What is the parameter of interest?
c. What is the sample?
d. What is the value of the statistic?
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