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

question 87

True/False

TABLE 8-11
A university wanted to find out the percentage of students who felt comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students. A survey 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, it is possible that the 99% confidence interval calculated from the data will not contain the sample proportion of students who feel comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students.

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