Question

Pinky Bauer, Chief Financial Officer of Harrison Haulers, Inc., suspects irregularities in the payroll system, and orders an inspection of "every tenth payroll voucher issued since January 1, 1999." Pinky is ordering a __________________. statistic from the payroll vouchers sample of the payroll vouchers sorting of the payroll vouchers parameter of the payroll vouchers census of the payroll vouchers

Answer 1

Here as it is given that for every tenth payroll voucher issued since January 1,1999. So here it is ordering a sample of the payroll vouchers.

Explaination:

Statistic :  is a characteristic of a small part of the population, i.e. sample.

Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population

sample : sample refers to a set of observations drawn from a population.

sorting : To just sort in a sequence

so sample of the payroll vouchers.