A Social Researcher Has Constructed a Measure of Racial Prejudice

question 1

Multiple Choice

A social researcher has constructed a measure of racial prejudice and obtained a distribution of scores on this measure from a randomly selected sample of public office holders. The scores were normally distributed with a mean of 45 and a standard deviation of 7. What is the probability that a randomly selected case from the sample will have a score less than 38?

• A) 0.4526
• B) 0.5018
• C) 0.5200
• D) 0.1587

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