TABLE 8-8 the President of a University Would Like to Estimate the Estimate

question 43

True/False

TABLE 8-8
The president of a university would like to estimate the proportion of the student population that owns a personal computer.In a sample of 500 students,417 own a personal computer.
-True or False: Referring to Table 8-8,a confidence interval estimate of the population proportion would only be valid if the distribution of the number of students who own a personal computer is normal.

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