SOLUTION: A student scored 69 percent on a test, and was in teh 44th percentile. Explain these two numbers.

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Question 277208: A student scored 69 percent on a test, and was in teh 44th percentile. Explain these two numbers.

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if the test was made of 100 questions the student would have only gotten 69 correct answers, 69% is the amount of questions that student correctly answered out of the entired test the student took.
if the student was in the 44th percentile then out of all of the students who took the test 43% of all those class mates scored higher then the student, and 56% of the other students who took the test scored lower on the test then that student.