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RUDIKE [14]
3 years ago
15

A state administered standardized reading exam is given to eighth grade students. The scores on this exam for all students state

wide have a normal distribution with a mean of 502 and a standard deviation of 81. A local Junior High principal has decided to give an award to any student who scores in the top 10% of statewide scores. How high should a student score be to win this award?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Lorico [155]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

a=502 +1.28*81=605.68

So the value of height that separates the bottom 90% of data from the top 10% is 605.68.  

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".  

Solution to the problem

Let X the random variable that represent the heights of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

X \sim N(502,81)  

Where \mu=502 and \sigma=81

We want to find a value a, such that we satisfy this condition:

P(X>a)=0.1   (a)

P(X   (b)

Both conditions are equivalent on this case. We can use the z score again in order to find the value a.  

As we can see on the figure attached the z value that satisfy the condition with 0.9 of the area on the left and 0.1 of the area on the right it's z=1.28. On this case P(Z<1.28)=0.9 and P(z>1.28)=0.1

If we use condition (b) from previous we have this:

P(X  

P(z

But we know which value of z satisfy the previous equation so then we can do this:

z=1.28

And if we solve for a we got

a=502 +1.28*81=605.68

So the value of height that separates the bottom 90% of data from the top 10% is 605.68.  

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