A Large School District Is Considering Implementing a Program That

question 49

Multiple Choice

A large school district is considering implementing a program that, if successful, would improve the reading scores of its students by 10 points. The current reading scores for the district are normally distributed with a mean of 37 and a standard deviation of 12. The administrators decide to test the new program in one school of 340 students.
-What is the mean of the comparison distribution?

• A)12
• B)27
• C)37
• D)47

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