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Question 620240: a highly selective boarding school will only admit students who place at least 2 standard deviations above the mean on a standardized test that has a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 24. What is the minimum score that an applicant must make on the test to be accepted?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
   
Hi,
a highly selective boarding school will only admit students who place 2 standard deviations
above the mean on a standardized test that has a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 24.
What is the minimum score that an applicant: 300+ 48 = 348 min score
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