Instruction 8-19
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".
-Referring to Instruction 8-19,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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The validity of a confidence interval estimate for a population proportion does not require the distribution of responses to be normal. Instead, it relies on the sample size being large enough for the sampling distribution of the proportion to be approximately normal, which is satisfied by the large sample size in this case.

Instruction 8-19 A University Wanted to Find Out the Percentage of Students