Practice with the Big Ideas As a college student, do you think college is easier than high school? A claim is made that 61% of all college students think that college is easier than high school. A researcher has reason to doubt this claim. She believes the claimed value is too high. Upon surveying a random sample of 400 college students, the researcher finds that 232 of the sampled students think that college is easier than high school. Use the above information to answer Questions 1 through 10. 1. Dividing 61% by 100 gives us a proportion of 0.61. Is this proportion a statistic or a parameter? Please explain