This is a statistic. The scenario states the fact the fire claimed the lives of 146 garmentworkers. The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City was an awful tragedy that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers. The result of computing a statistic from a sample of data is a numerical value. A parameter is a calculated numerical value from the population of data. Because it is taken from a sample of the garment workers who perished in the fire, the value that was given of 146 in this scenario counts as a statistic