Acoffee company wants to make sure that their coffee is being served at the right temperature. if it is too hot, the customers could burn themselves. if it is too cold, the customers will be unsatisfied. the company has determined that they want the average coffee temperature to be 65 degrees
c. what is the parameter?

Average temperature of the cup of coffee.

Explanation:

If for a sample of population it’s related with statistics.

But in a parameter the whole population should be considered in a survey.  

When the all customers in consideration of this survey it’s considered as a parameter.  

Further explanation:  

Parameters are numbers which are summarize data for an entire population. But statistics are used to summarize data by using a sample.  

An unknown population average is known as a parameter. A known sample average is known as a statistic. Here the survey has done with all the customers come to the shop daily. This is considered to be a parameter. If it is a statistic they should select a specific sample of customers.  

But since all the customers comes to the shop has been considered in the survey this is a parameter of average temperature of sup of coffee consume by customers.  

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Average temperature, statistic, samples and parameter