SOLUTION: On a placement examination, Rick scored lower than 1132 of the 12,800 students who took the exam. Find the percentile, rounded to the nearest percent, for Rick's score

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Question 1194147: On a placement examination, Rick scored lower than 1132 of the 12,800 students who took the exam. Find the percentile, rounded to the nearest percent, for Rick's score
Found 3 solutions by Edwin McCravy, math_tutor2020, ikleyn:
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



9th percentile.  That's a very low score.

Edwin
Answer by math_tutor2020(3817)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Edwin has misread the problem, or has misinterpreted the value he calculated.

The 8.84% he got represents the idea that roughly 8.84% of the class scored higher than Rick.
This means Rick's score is larger than 100% - 8.84% = 91.16% of the class.

This places Rick at about the 91st percentile.
Answer by ikleyn(52802)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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            Let me insert  (contribute)  my  two cents  to this solution. 


If we are given that "Rick scored lower than 1132 of the 12,800 students", then all that we can state is that his percentile is lower than 


    100% - 8.84375% = 91.15625%.



ANSWER.  All what we can derive from the given part is that Rick's score 

         is lower than 91.15625%.



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