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SCENARIO 8-14
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 Scenario 8-14,what is the critical value for the 90% one-sided confidence interval for the proportion of students who had cheated on an exam during the last 12 months?


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