A Large Number of Applicants for Admission to Graduate Study

question 39

Multiple Choice

A large number of applicants for admission to graduate study in business are given an aptitude test.Scores are normally distributed with a mean of 460 and standard deviation of 80.The top 2.5 percent of the applicants would have a score of at least (choose the nearest integer) :

• A) 606.
• B) 617.
• C) 600.
• D) 646

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Definitions:

Groundwater

Water that is found in the pores and fractures in rock and soil beneath the Earth's surface, which can supply wells and springs.

Porphyry Copper Deposits

Large, low-grade mineral deposits containing dispersed copper-bearing minerals in a porphyritic host rock, often associated with intrusive igneous rocks.

Porphyritic Texture

A texture in igneous rock consisting of large crystal grains known as phenocrysts embedded in a fine-grained groundmass.

Intrusions

refer to bodies of igneous rock that form when magma cools and solidifies within the crust of a planet.