Find a 95% Confidence Interval for the True Population Proportion $18.9 \%$

question 160

Multiple Choice

Find a 95% confidence interval for the true population proportion.
-In a poll of 1082 college students, 19% said that they had cheated at least once on an exam.

• A) \(18.9 \%\) to \(19.1 \%\)
• B) \(17.5 \%\) to \(20.5 \%\)
• C) \(16.0 \%\) to \(22.0 \%\)
• D) \(12.9 \%\) to \(25.1 \%\)

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