SCENARIO 8-9 A University Wanted to Find Out the Percentage of Students

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True/False

SCENARIO 8-9
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 Scenario 8-9,we are 99% confident that the total number of the student population who feel comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students is between 0.4557 and 0.5043.

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