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Improving SAT scores. Refer to the Chance (Winter 2001) study of students who paid a priva...

Improving SAT scores. Refer to the Chance (Winter 2001) study of students who paid a private tutor to help them improve their SAT scores, presented in Exercise 2.101 (p. 74). The table summarizing the changes in both the SAT-Mathematics and SAT-Verbal scores for these students is reproduced here. Assume that both distributions of SAT score changes are approximately normal.

 

SAT-Math

SAT-Verbal

Mean change in score Standard deviation of changes in score

19

7

65

49

a. What is the probability that a student increases his or her score on the SAT-Math test by at least 50 points?


b. What is the probability that a student increases his or her score on the SAT-Verbal test by at least 50 points?

Exercise 2.101

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