A group of police officers takes an annual examination which will qualify them for additional training and possible promotion. The pool of test takers includes 40% minorities. When the test results are returned, half of the non minority applicants passed and none of the minority applicants passed. The county invalidated all test results. Those with a passing grade sued to have their results certified.

A. Their results will be certified because they passed.

B. The results were justifiably invalidated because the test must have had some fault that caused minorities to fail.

C. Those who passed will have to take an additional test

D. The county is required to curve the scores such that minority applicants also passed the exam.

A