TABLE 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 Table 8-13, 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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A confidence interval for a proportion can be valid if the sample size is large enough, regardless of the normality of the population distribution, due to the Central Limit Theorem.

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