SOLUTION: At a local high school, GPA's are normally distributed with a mean of 2.9 and standard deviation of 0.6. What is the GPA of the highest 2.5% of the students?

Question 1179065: At a local high school, GPA's are normally distributed with a mean of 2.9 and standard deviation of 0.6. What is the GPA of the highest 2.5% of the students?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Hi
GPA's are normally distributed: µ = 2.9  and σ = .6
 the GPA of the highest 2.5% of the students:
invNorm(.025) = 1.96
, 
1.96*(.6) + 2.9 = 4.1 

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