A particular country has 55 total states. If the areas of 30 states are added and the sum is divided by 30, the result is 196,582 square kilometers. Determine whether this result is a statistic or a parameter and why.

Answer 1

A parameter is data about the whole population, while a statistic deals with a part of the population, a sample. What does that tell you?

Answer 2

The result is a statistic because it describes some characteristics of a sample.
Or is it because if describes some characteristics of a population? this is where I get confused.
thanks

Answer 3

parameter

Answer 4

Its a statistic