Instruction 8-20 A Business and Management Magazine Conducted a Survey on Employees

question 8

True/False

Instruction 8-20
A business and management magazine conducted a survey on employees cheating on their expense reports and other unethical conduct. In the survey of 200 managers, 58% of the managers have caught employees cheating on an expense report, 50% have caught employees working a second job on company time, 22% have caught employees listing a "strip bar" as a restaurant on an expense report, and 19% have caught employees giving a kickback to a customer.
-Referring to Instruction 8-20,it is possible that the 95% confidence interval calculated from the data will not contain the sample proportion of managers who have caught employees cheating on an expense report.

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