Ahigh-profile consulting company chooses its new entry-level employees from a pool of recent college graduates using a five-step interview process. unfortunately, there are usually more candidates who complete the interview process than the number of new positions that are available. as a result, cumulative gpa is used as a tie-breaker. gpas for the successful interviewees are normally distributed, with a mean of 3.3 and a standard deviation of 0.4. out of the163 people who made it through the interview process, only 121 can be hired. what cut-off gpa should the company use?

Kendra knight took part in a friendly game of touch football. she had played before and was familiar with football. michael jewett was on her team. in the course of play, michael bumped into kendra and knocked her to the ground. he stepped on her hand, causing injury to a little finger that later required its amputation. she sued michael for damages. he defended on the ground that she had assumed the risk. kendra claimed that assumption of risk could not be raised as a defense because the state legislature had adopted the standard of comparative negligence. what happens if contributory negligence applies? what happens if the defense of comparative negligence applies?