In the August 12, 2007, Issue of Parade Magazine (Which

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In the August 12, 2007, issue of Parade magazine (which comes with the Sunday newspaper for millions of Americans), readers were asked to go online and vote on the question: Should the drinking age be lowered? The results were published in the October 7 issue: More than 14,000 readers voted, and 48% said "yes."
a. Is this number (48%) a parameter or a statistic? Explain (in one sentence or less) how you know.
b. Do you trust this sample to be representative of the population of all American adults? Explain.
c. How would you respond to someone who says, "Even if this had been a random sample, there's no way that a sample of 14,000 people could be representative of an entire country of 300 million people."