Question

As the SAT is used for college admissions the GRE is used for graduate school admissions. A sample of verbal and

quantitative scores from the GRE are both normally distributed, with the values of H and a are given below.
Verbal Quantitative
670 550
1121 148
Kevin scored 610 on the verbal section and 700 on the quantitative section. Use the standard deviation as a unit of
measurement to comnare Kevin's verhal and quantitative scores on the GRE

Answer 1

Kevin’s verbal score is 610 is 140 points above the mean,which is 470. the standard deviation is 121 so his verbal score is 140/121≈1.16 standard deviations above the mean. Kevins quantitative score of 700 is 150 points above the mean, which is 500. The standard deviation is 148, so his quantitative score is 150/148 ≈ 1.01 standard deviation above the mean.Thus, Kevins verbal score is better than his quantitative score.

Answer 2

Explanation: