A social researcher has constructed a measure of racial prejudice and obtained a distribution of scores on this measure from a randomly selected sample of public office holders

The scores were normally distributed with a mean of 45 and a standard deviation of 7. What is the probability that a randomly selected case from the sample will have a score less than 38?

a. 0.4526
b. 0.5018
c. 0.5200
d. 0.1587


ANSWER: d

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