A university is interested in promoting graduates of its honors program by establishing that the mean GPA of these graduates exceeds 5.1. A sample of 33 honors students is taken and is found to have a mean GPA equal to 5.2. The population standard deviation is assumed to equal 0.40. The parameter to be tested is .

B. The mean GPA of the university honors students

Step-by-step explanation:

Parameter in statistical parlance simply refers to numerical characteristics obtijed from the population dataset or observations. The population itself refers to all observations belonging to a particular or specific experiment or research. Here, the population is the all students belonging to the university's honors programme. The measured characteristic is the mean of the student's GPA. THEREFORE, the parameter will be the mean GPA of the honors student.