1. Creek Ratz is a very popular restaurant located along the coast of northern Florida. They

serve a variety of steak and seafood dinners. During the summer beach season, they do

not take reservations or accept "call ahead" seating. Management of the restaurant is

concerned with the time a patron must wait before being seated for dinner. Listed below

is the wait time, in minutes, for the 25 tables seated last Saturday night.

28 39 23 67 37 28 56 40 28 50

51 45 44 65 61 27 24 61 34 44

64 25 24 27 29

a. Explain why the times are a population.

The times are a population because "the population is the entire group of individuals or objects under consideration" (Lind, Marchal, & Wathen, 2008, p. 261). Management is concerned with the time a patron must wait, and this collection of times...