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A criminologist has developed a questionnaire for predicting whether a teenager will become a delinquent. Scores on the questionnaire can
(a) What proportion of the time will the criminologist misclassify a nondelinquent as a delinquent? A delinquent as a nondelinquent?
(b) On the same set of axes, draw the normal curves that represent the distributions of scores made by delinquents and nondelinquents. Shade the two areas that correspond to the probabilities asked for in part (a).
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