A large-scale survey of 16,607 women from 42 cities around the world reports that 84% of women experience their first street harassment before the age of 17. Describe the statistic, population, and population parameter for this setting.

A statistic refers to a quantity that is computed from values in a sample. This is quite often the mean. In this case, the statistic would be that 84% of women experience sexual harassment before the age of 17.

The population of a study is the set of similar items that is of interest in a question. In this example, the population is that of women.

The population parameter is the quantity that is entering into the probability distribution of a statistic or random variable. This would be the women before the age of 17.

d is the correct answer.

b is incorrect because it makes food by itself

c is incorrect because us humans don't know how to produce their own food using the sun like plants.

a is incorrect because consumers can depend on carnivores for eating food for consumers to eat the dead organism. same thing with omnivores.