Valerie's state passed a law mandating a free public ...

[Yolanda]

Valerie's state passed a law mandating a free public pre-kindergarten education for three- and four-year-old children, although school enrollment is not mandatory until age five, with kindergarten. She is tracking the school-readiness and reading-readiness scores of all children starting kindergarten to see how the children who are enrolled in the pre-K program do in comparison to those of similar background who do not attend. Valerie is conducting ____.
 
  a. applied research
 b. implementation research
  c. basic research
 d. policy research

Question 2

Given that on one section of the SAT the mean is 500 and the standard deviation is 100, what is the approximate probability of a student scoring 700 or higher on the test?
 
  a. 0.98
  b. 0.02
  c. 0.12
  d. 0.75

[kiamars2010]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b

[Yolanda]

Great answer, keep it coming

[komodo7]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it