A Student Took a Chemistry Exam Where the Exam Scores

question 117

Multiple Choice

A student took a chemistry exam where the exam scores were mound-shaped with a mean score of 90 and a standard deviation of 64. She also took a statistics exam where the scores were mound-shaped, the mean score was 70 and the standard deviation was 16. If the student's grades were 102 on the chemistry exam and 77 on the statistics exam, then:

• A) the student did relatively better on the chemistry exam than on the statistics exam, compared to the other students in each class.
• B) the student did relatively better on the statistics exam than on the chemistry exam, compared to the other students in the two classes.
• C) the student's scores on both exams are comparable, when accounting for the scores of the other students in the two classes.
• D) it is impossible to say which of the student's exam scores indicates the better performance.
• E) the student did relatively the same on both exams.

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