SOLUTION: _____The correlation coefficient between high school grade point average (gpa) and college gpa is 0.560. For a student with a high school gpa that is 2.5 standard deviations above

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Question 934824: _____The correlation coefficient between high school grade point average (gpa) and college gpa is 0.560. For a student with a high school gpa that is 2.5 standard deviations above the mean, we would expect that student to have a college gpa that is ________________________ the mean.
A)2.5 SD above
B)0.56 SD above
C)Equal to
D)1.4 SD above

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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
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So we would expect that student to have a college gpa that is $\underline{{\color{red}{\text{1.4 SD above}}}}$ the mean.
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Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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since coefficient between high school grade point average (gpa) and college gpa is , a student with a high school gpa that is standard deviations above the mean, we would expect that student to have a college gpa that is
so, your answer is:
D: