SOLUTION: Mensa is an international high IQ society. To gain membership into this organization, an individual must have an IQ score that is in the top 0.5% of the population. IQ scores are w

Question 1090495: Mensa is an international high IQ society. To gain membership into this organization, an individual must have an IQ score that is in the top 0.5% of the population. IQ scores are well modeled by the normal model with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. What is the minimum IQ score needed to gain membership to this group?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the z score so that .

Solve for X.

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