2.135 Multiple choice: GRE scores In a study of graduate students who took the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), the Educational Testing Service reported that for the quantitative exam, U.S. citizens had a mean of 529 and standard deviation of 127, whereas the non-U.S. citizens had a mean of 649 and standard deviation of 129. Which of the following is true?

a. Both groups had about the same amount of variability in their scores, but non-U.S. citizens performed better, on the average, than U.S. citizens.

b. If the distribution of scores was approximately bell shaped, then almost no U.S. citizens scored below 400.

c. If the scores range between 200 and 800, then probably the scores for non-U.S. citizens were symmetric and bell shaped.

d. A non-U.S. citizen who scored 3 standard deviations below the mean had a score of 200.