Chapter 2: Q 63. (page 140)
Sudoku Refer to Exercise Find the percentile of Mrs. Starnes鈥檚
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Short Answer
percentile is minutes.
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Chapter 2: Q 63. (page 140)
Sudoku Refer to Exercise Find the percentile of Mrs. Starnes鈥檚
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percentile is minutes.
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Scores on the ACT college entrance exam follow a bell-shaped distribution with mean and standard deviation 5. Wayne鈥檚 standardized score on the ACT was What was Wayne鈥檚 actual ACT score?
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Class is over! Mr. Shrager does not always let his statistics class out on time. In fact, he seems to end class according to his own 鈥渋nternal clock.鈥 The density curve models the distribution of the amount of time after class ends (in minutes) when Mr. Shrager dismisses the class. (A negative value indicates he ended class early.)

a. What height must the density curve have? Justify your answer.
b. About what proportion of the time does Mr. Shrager dismiss class within 1 minute of its scheduled end time?
c. Calculate and interpret the percentile of the distribution.
IQ test scores Scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (an IQ test) for the 20- to 34-year-old age group are approximately Normally distributed with 渭=110 and 蟽=25 .
a. What percent of people aged 20 to 34 have IQs between 125 and 150?
b. MENSA is an elite organization that admits as members people who score in the top 2% on IQ tests. What score on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale would an individual aged 20 to 34 have to earn to qualify for MENSA membership?
Brush your teeth The amount of time Ricardo spends brushing his teeth follows a Normal distribution with unknown mean and standard deviation. Ricardo spends less than one minute brushing his teeth about of the time. He spends more than two minutes brushing his teeth of the time. Use this information to determine the mean and standard deviation of this distribution.
Household incomes Refer to Exercise Here are summary statistics for the state median household incomes:
| n | Mean | SD | Min | Q1 | Med | Q3 | Max |
| 50 | 51742.44 | 8210.64 | 36641 | 46071 | 50009 | 57020 | 71836 |
a. Find and interpret the score for North Carolina, with a median household income of
b. New Jersey had a standardized score of Find New Jersey鈥檚 median household income for that year.
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