What proportion of OSU students eat breakfast on a regular basis? To help you estimate this unknown population proportion, you survey a random sample of 380 OSU students, and 159 of these students tell you that they eat breakfast on a regular basis.

1. From the information given above, what is the sample proportion? Please compute that value below and round your answer to three decimal places

2. Would the value you computed to answer Question 1 be considered a parameter or a statistic? Please explain.

3. Imagine now that 10 of your classmates each survey a random sample of size n = 380 OSU students. The proportion of students in each of these samples who say they eat breakfast on a regular basis is presented in the dot plot below. Are you surprised that the sample proportions are different from each other? Please explain why or why not.