In your college campus,30% of the students use tobacco in some form.In your statistics class of 40 students,the probability of finding at least 15 students who use tobacco is:
A) 0.3051.
B) 0.1949.
C) 0.8051.
D) 0.1515.
E) 0.3485.

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This problem can be approached using the binomial probability formula, which is P(X = k) = (n choose k) * p^k * (1-p)^(n-k), where n is the number of trials (students in this case), k is the number of successes (students using tobacco), and p is the probability of success on a single trial (0.30 in this case). However, calculating the probability of finding "at least 15 students" who use tobacco involves summing the probabilities of finding exactly 15, 16, 17, ..., up to 40 students who use tobacco, which is cumbersome to calculate directly. Instead, a more practical approach in real-world scenarios would involve using statistical software or a binomial probability calculator to find this sum. Given the choices provided and without the exact calculations shown, the correct answer is selected based on the understanding of binomial distributions, where the probability of finding at least 15 students out of 40 in a class, where each student has a 30% chance of using tobacco, would not be extremely high, considering that 15 is significantly higher than the expected number of students using tobacco (which would be 30% of 40, or 12 students). Therefore, option B seems to be the most plausible choice without performing the detailed calculation, assuming it represents the probability of this event occurring, which is relatively low but not extremely rare.

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