The scores on a college entrance exam is 100 with a standard deviation of 7.5. How do you find the probability that a randomly selected score is between 85 and 100?

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Answer 1 · 2017-06-22T14:37:30

Proability that a randomly selected score is between $85$ and $100$ is $47.72%$

Asumming that the distribution is normal, let us find the $z$ score of $85$ and $100$ .

As $mu=100$ and $sigma=7.5$

$z$ -score is given by $(x-mu)/sigma$

Hence for $85$ , $z$ -scorre is $(85-100)/7.5=-15/7.5=-2$

and for $100$ , $z$ -scorre is $(100-100)/7.5=0$

Hence area between $-2$ and $0$ from tables is $0.4772$

and probability is $47.72%$

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