Intro Stats (5th Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134210223
Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5.1, Problem 1JC
Your statistics teacher has announced that the lower of your two tests will be dropped. You got a 90 on test 1 and an 80 on test 2. You’re all set to drop the 80 until she announces that she grades “on a curve.” She standardized the scores to decide which is the lower one. If the
- a) Which one will be dropped?
- b) Does this seem “fair”?
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