If you take a test in which the scores are normally distributed and you score at the 40th percentile,you have scored ____ the mean and ____ the median.
A) above; above
B) above; below
C) below; above
D) below; below

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In a normal distribution, the mean and median are the same. Scoring at the 40th percentile means you scored below both the mean and the median, which are at the 50th percentile.

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