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According to a 2009 Reader's Digest article, people throw away approximately 13% of what they buy at the grocery store. Assume this is the true proportion and you plan to randomly survey 158 grocery shoppers to investigate their behavior. What is the probability that the sample proportion exceeds 0.12?
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