A Highly Selective Boarding School Will Only Admit Students Who

question 111

Multiple Choice

A highly selective boarding school will only admit students who place at least 1.5 z-scores above the mean on astandardized test that has a mean of 110 and a standard deviation of 12. What is the minimum score that anapplicant must make on the test to be accepted?

• A) 128
• B) 92
• C) 122
• D) 98

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