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

question 97

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, 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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