Instruction 8-13
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 8-13,a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of student population who feel comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students is narrower than a 99% confidence interval.

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This is true because as the level of confidence increases, the width of the confidence interval also increases, which means that a 99% confidence interval will be wider than a 95% confidence interval.

Instruction 8-13 A University Wanted to Find Out the Percentage of Students