A High-Profile Consulting Company Chooses Its New Entry-Level Employees from a Pool

question 21

Multiple Choice

A high-profile consulting company chooses its new entry-level employees from a pool of recent college graduates using a five-step interview process. Unfortunately, there are usually more candidates who complete the interview process than the number of new positions that are available. As a result, cumulative GPA is used as a tie-breaker. GPAs for the successful interviewees are Normally distributed, with a mean of 3.3 and a standard deviation of 0.4. What proportion of candidates have a GPA under 3.0?

• A)0.023
• B)0.227
• C)0.551
• D)0.773

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