Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question. A sprint duathlon consists of a 5 km run, a 20 km bike ride, followed by another 5 km run. The mean finish time of all participants in a recent large duathlon was 1.67 hours with a standard deviation of 0.25 hours. Suppose a random sample of 30 participants was taken and the mean finishing time was found to be 1.59 hours with a standard deviation of 0.30 hours.
-In this example, the numerical values of 1.67 hours and 0.25 hours are .

A) estimates
B) unbiased estimators
C) statistics
D) parameters