TABLE 8-12 The President of a University Is Concerned That the Percentage

question 19

True/False

TABLE 8-12
The president of a university is concerned that the percentage of students who have cheated on an exam is higher than the 1% acceptable level. A confidential random sample of 1,000 students from a population of 7,000 revealed that 6 of them said that they had cheated on an exam during the last semester.
-Referring to Table 8-12, the president can be 90% confident that no more than 1% of the students at the university had cheated on an exam during the last semester.

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Null Hypothesis

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