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#Question id: 16874


A randomly selected sample of 1,000 college students was asked whether they had ever used the drug Ecstasy. Sixteen percent (16% or 0.16) of the 1,000 students surveyed said they had. Which one of the following statements about the number 0.16 is correct?

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology
  1. It is a sample proportion.
  2. It is a population proportion.
  3. It is a margin of error.
  4. It is a randomly chosen number.