The Correlation Coefficient Between High School Grade Point Average (GPA)

question 13

Multiple Choice

The correlation coefficient between high school grade point average (GPA) and college GPA is 0.560.For a student with a high school GPA that is 2.5 standard deviations above the Mean, we would expect that student to have a college GPA that is ______ the mean.

• A)0.56 SD above
• B)1.94 SD above
• C)2.5 SD above
• D)equal to
• E)1.4 SD above

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