Amusement parks sell day passes and season passes. A day pass to Fun World costs $41 and provides admittance to the amusement park for one day. A season pass to Fun World costs $100 and provides unlimited admittance to the amusement park all season. The manager of Fun World would like to better understand how frequently patrons visit the park. At the end of the season he selects two separate random samples: one of 30 patrons that did not buy a season pass and one of 30 patrons that did buy a season pass. The parallel boxplots show the distribution of number of visits per patron for the most recent season for these two samples. Required:
a. Write a few sentences comparing the distributions of number of visits for the sample of patrons that did and did not buy a season pass.
b. The mean number of visits per patron among those that did not buy a season pass is 1.7 visits per patron. The mean number of visits per patron among those that did buy a season pass is 2.967 visits per patron. Are these values parameters or statistics? Explain.