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?

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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?
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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
z+=blue+%28x+-+mu%29%2Fblue%28sigma%29, blue%28sigma%29%2Az+%2B+mu=blue+%28x%29
1.96*(.6) + 2.9 = 4.1 

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