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An individual being tested for a gifted program scores a 132 on the Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT), which has a
  mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. There is a .40 correlation between the CogAT score and success as
  measured by GPA in the gifted program, which has a weighted mean of 4.3 with a SD of .2. Use the Standard Error
  of the Estimate (SEest) to predict where this students GPA will fall 95 percent of the time.
 
  a. 4.7  .36
  b. 4.3  .4
  c. 4.5  .8
  d. 4.7  .28
  e. None of these

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An individual being tested for a gifted program scores a 132 on the Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT), which has a
  mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. There is a .40 correlation between the CogAT score and success as
  measured by GPA in the gifted program, which has a weighted mean of 4.3 with a SD of .2. Use the Standard Error
  of the Estimate (SEest) to predict where this students GPA will fall 68 percent of the time.
 
  a. 4.7  .18
  b. 4.3  .2
  c. 4.5  .4
  d. 4.7  .15
  e. None of these



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: a

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: a



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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