We believe that 82% of the population of all Business Statistics students consider statistics to be an exciting subject. Suppose we randomly and independently selected 39 students from the population. If the true percentage is really 82%, find the probability of observing 38 or more students who consider statistics to be an exciting subject. Round to six decimal places.
A) 0.004161
B) 0.000435
C) 0.003726
D) 0.995839

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The probability of observing 38 or more students who consider statistics to be an exciting subject is 0.004161. This can be calculated using the binomial distribution with n = 39 and p = 0.82.

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