Suppose that your younger sister is applying for entrance to college and has tak

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Suppose that your younger sister is applying for entrance to college and has taken the SATs. She scored at the 84th percentile on the verbal section of the fun and at the 93rd percentile on the math section of the fun. Because you have been studying statistics, she asks you for an interpretation of these values. What would you tell her?
I would tell her that out of all the people who took the verbal section,  % scored higher than she did and  % scored at or below her score. For the math section,  % of those who took the fun scored at or below her score and  % scored higher than she did.

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I would tell her that out of all the people who took the verbal section, (100-84)%=16% scored higher than she did and 84% scored at or below her score

. For the math section, (100-93)%=7% of those who took the exam scored at or below her score and 93% scored higher than she did.

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