William passed an aptitude test in order to be accepted in law at McGill university. his result was 450, but the mean is 400, and the standard deviation is 75. His friend cassandra passed a similar but not identical test, in law again, but at l'univeristé de Montreal. her mark was 300, the mean is 200, and standard deviation.
Only the top 15% are selected for the program, are they going to be selected?
If a student gets a mark m, and the results have a normal distribution with mean value , and standard deviation then the part of resautls which are lower than m is ,
where is a standard normal distribution and is its cumulative distribution function.
But
Substitute values for William m = 450, and obtain , which is less than 75%, so William is not selected
Substitute values for Cassandra m = 300, and obtain , which is more than 85%, so Cassandra is selected
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