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 ab

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Question 934821: _________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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since coefficient between high school grade point average (gpa) and college gpa is 0.560, 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 2.5%2A0.560=1.4 SD above
so, your answer is:
D: 1.4 SD above