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

question 69

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 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".
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 8-9, a confidence interval estimate of the population
proportion would only be valid if the distribution of the number of students who feel
comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students is normal.

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Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistical analysis to quantify the variation or dispersion of a set of data points.

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