TABLE 8-11 A University Wanted to Find Out the Percentage of Students

question 5

Short Answer

TABLE 8-11
A university wanted to find out the percentage of students who felt comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students. A surveyed of 2,800 students was conducted and the students were asked if they felt comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students. The results were 1,344 answered "Yes" and 1,456 answered "no."
-Referring to Table 8-11, the sampling error of a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of the student population who feel comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students is ________.

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

A group of subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the variable under investigation, to test a hypothesis.

Confirm

To establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of something.

Predictions

The act of forecasting future events or outcomes based on current or past data.

Confounding Variables

External factors that can affect the outcome of an experiment, making it unclear whether the results are due to the independent variable or some other influence.