Using the normal distribution, it is found that a student has to score 0.6433 standard deviations above the mean to be publicly recognized.
In a normal distribution with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex], the z-score of a measure X is given by:
[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]
The top 26% of the scores are given by scores above the 74th percentile, which corresponds to Z = 0.6433, hence, a student has to score 0.6433 standard deviations above the mean to be publicly recognized.
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