Please use the sample means and variances of the above six financial variables in 2011 as an estimate of the population means and variances of the year 2012, and answer the following question:

What is the probability that the sample mean of dividend per share of the 37 companies is greater than eight in 2012?

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Debt-to-asset (%) Dividend per share Current ratio Fixed asset turnover ROA P/B 130.4 2.16 -5.36 0.92 9.8 -1.4 0.91 1.08 1.24 1.03 14.43 1.17 0.17 3.18 60.35 78.74 24.3 45.53 22.58 13.27 53.93 28.8 53.05 35.8 17.58 17.69 54.66 63.65 19.89 34.34 46.59 24.21 33.55 40.79 35.49 39.01 37.82 51.42 0.32 22.85 45.63 57.04 0 0 5.73 10.08 0 5.44 5.99 12.1 0 4.4 1.07 8.16 0 5.06 7.6 1.01 4.37 1.5 2.29 7.96 7.35 0 3.1 5.52 3.42 5.49 3.4 4.69 87.75 36.76 151.46 171.58 174.97 137.16 150.26 125.28 215.22 394.77 438.73 220.43 129.16 419.59 122.9 39.16 373.75 253.04 176.64 218.21 164.8 209.99 157.65 151.9 54.93 155.36 135.61 13.8 0.91 12.08 0.29 3.08 1.04 9.33 0.48 1.06 0.47 10.75 9.52 9.87 6.83 2.02 5.42 27.38 0 0.47 4.23 5.36 2.55 1.05 0.02 0.85 2.78 2.19 0.22 1.56 1.06 1.17 1.45 0.72 4.5 4.82 3.71 2.47 4.52 1.47 -9.68 1.88 7.41 6.5 -1.31 0.77 1.23 0.65 4.04 6.24 -1.62 0.83 2.85 1.88 4.67 2.24 2.23 1.06 0.26 0.84 2.57 0.94 0.73 1.49 0.59 0.89 2.69 2.13 1.12 0.94 2.11 1.84