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
d
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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