document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=425318>Question 425318</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> The graduate selection committe wants to select the top 10% of applicants. On a standardized test with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100, what woud be the cutoff score for selecting the top 10% of applicants, assuming that the standardized test is normally distributed?  The answer I got was z-1.282. Is this correct? please help </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "You may have posted a typo.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The z-value with a 10% right tail is invNorm(0.90) = 1.2816<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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