SOLUTION: A person must score in the upper 2% of the population on an IQ test to qualify for membership in Mensa. If IQ scores are normally ldistributed with a mean of 100 and a standard dev

Question 335444: A person must score in the upper 2% of the population on an IQ test to qualify for membership in Mensa. If IQ scores are normally ldistributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, what score must a person have to qualify for Mensa?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Using EXCEL's NORMSINV function with an argument of , I got

or rounded up,

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