Exhibit 10.1 the Following Questions Are Based on the Problem Description and Description

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Exhibit 10.1
The following questions are based on the problem description and the output below.
A college admissions officer wants to evaluate graduate school applicants based on their GMAT scores, verbal and quantitative. Students are classified as either successful or not-successful in their graduate studies. The officer has data on 20 current students, ten of whom are doing very well (Group 1) and ten who are not (Group 2) . ​ ​ ​ ​
-Refer to Exhibit 10.1. Suppose that for a given observation, the difference between Mahalanobis distances between group 1 and 2 (G1-G2) is big and positive. This means that

• A) The observation is likely to be classified correctly to group 2
• B) The observation is likely to be classified correctly to group 1
• C) The observation is likely to be classified incorrectly to group 2
• D) The observation is likely to be classified incorrectly to group 1

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