Instruction 8-16
The Registrar of a university would like to estimate the proportion of the student population who owns a personal computer. In a sample of 500 students, 417 own a personal computer.
-Referring to Instruction 8-16,it is possible that the 99% confidence interval calculated from the data will not contain the proportion of student population who own a personal computer.

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Although confidence intervals are designed to capture the true population parameter a certain percentage of the time (in this case, 99% of the time), there is still a 1% chance that the true proportion of the student population who own a personal computer will not be contained within the calculated 99% confidence interval.

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