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sergey [27]
1 year ago
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Stats To quality for a police academy, applicants are given a lest of physical Itness. Ihe scores are normallyDistributed with a

mean of 64 and a standard deviation of 9. If only the top 20% of the applicants are selected,Find the cutoff score.
Mathematics
1 answer:
omeli [17]1 year ago
6 0

Since we want just the top 20% applicants and the data is normally distributed, we can use a z-score table to check the z-score that gives this percentage.

The z-score table usually shows the percentage for the values below a certain z-score, but since the whole distribution accounts to 100%, we can do the following.

We want a z* such that:

P(z>z^*)=0.20

But, to use a value that is in a z-score table, we do the following:

\begin{gathered} P(zz^*)=1 \\ P(zz^*)=1-0.20=0.80 \end{gathered}

So, we want a z-score that give a percentage of 80% for the value below it.

Using the z-score table or a z-score calculator, we can see that:

\begin{gathered} P(zNow that we have the z-score cutoff, we can convert it to the score cutoff by using:[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\Longrightarrow x=z\sigma+\mu

Where z is the z-score we have, μ is the mean and σ is the standard deviation, so:

\begin{gathered} x=0.8416\cdot9+64 \\ x=7.5744.64 \\ x=71.5744\cong72 \end{gathered}

so, the cutoff score is approximately 72.

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