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According to a 2009 Reader's Digest article, people throw away about 11% of what they buy at the grocery store. Assume this is the true proportion and you plan to randomly survey 79 grocery shoppers to investigate their behavior. What is the probability that the sample proportion does not exceed 0.18?
Note: Calculate z to two decimal places.
Answer = (Enter your answer as a number accurate to 4 decimal places.)
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