3. A random sample consisting of 450 high school students is surveyed about their plans for college, and 297 of these students indicate that they plan to apply to a college. If the goal is to use this information to estimate p, or the proportion of all high school students who plan to apply to a college, we'd call p a A. statistic B. parameter C. standard deviation D. margin of error E. confidence level 4. Return to Question 3. Since 297 out of the random sample of 450 high school students indicated that they were planning to apply to a college, we'd call the resulting proportion of 0.66 a A. statistic B. parameter C. standard deviation D. margin of error E. confidence level