Question: Reporting cheating What proportion of students are willing to report cheating by other students? A student project put this question to an SRS of 172 undergraduates at a large university: "You witness two students cheating on a quiz. Do you go to the professor?" Only 19 answered "Yes."
(a) Identify the population and parameter of interest.
(b) Check conditions for constructing a confidence interval for the parameter.
(c) Construct a 99% confidence interval for p. Show your method.
(d) Interpret the interval in context.