Students all over the United States recently took the National Science Foundation test on Biology. The mean score for girls was 150, with a standard deviation of 30. What is the approximate percentile rank for a student with a score of 180

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Answer:

[tex]z=\frac{180-150}{30}= 1[/tex]

And if we find the probability using the normal standard distribution we got:

[tex]P(z<1)=0.841[/tex]

And the the percentile would be approximately 84.1

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we define the random variable of interest as "Score for girls" and we know the following parameters:

[tex]\mu =150, \sigma =30[/tex]

And we want to find the percentile for the score 180 and we can use the z score formula given by:

[tex] z=\frac{X -\mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

And replacing we got:

[tex]z=\frac{180-150}{30}= 1[/tex]

And if we find the probability using the normal standard distribution we got:

[tex]P(z<1)=0.841[/tex]

And the the percentile would be approximately 84.1