SOLUTION: A distribution of values is normal with a mean of 96 and a standard deviation of 41.1. Find P42, which is the score separating the bottom 42% from the top 58%. Enter your ans

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Question 1180280: A distribution of values is normal with a mean of 96 and a standard deviation of 41.1.
Find P42, which is the score separating the bottom 42% from the top 58%.
Enter your answer as a number accurate to 4 decimal places.

Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Can get P42 from table or invnorm function. It is z=-0.2019
z=(x-mean)/sd
-0.2019=(x-96)/4.1
-0.8278=x-96
x=95.1732
check using normalcdf(0,95.1732,96,4.1) and get 0.42009

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