IQ scores have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. What percentile corresponds to an IQ score of 115? Explain the steps you took to find the percentile.
Solution :
From the data given in the above problem we have to calculate the percentile
Now we have to consider X be the IQ scores.
Then from the data mean of X is ,and
standard deviation
Therefore the percentile corresponds to an IQ score of 115 is obtained by:
Here with the help of z -table we will get
Finally the percentile corresponds to an IQ score of 115 is 84th percentile.
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