he sat and act college entrance exams are taken by thousands of students each year. the mathematics portion of each of these exams produces scores that are approximately normally distributed. in recent years, sat mathematics exam scores have averaged 480 with a standard deviation of 100. the average and standard deviation for the act mathematics scores are 18 and 6, respectively. (a) (2 pts) suppose you made a 620 on the mathematics section of the sat. what is your standard (i.e., standardized) score for the mathematics section? (b) (2 pts) what percent of all students scored below you on the mathematics section of the sat? (c) (2 pts) what would have been the comparable score on the mathematics section of the act?

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a)The percentage of students will score below 620 in a typical year is 0.5808.

b)The score that the engineering school should set as a comparable standard on the ACT math test is 24 .

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Given that;

[tex]\mu=480,\[/tex]  [tex]\sigma=100[/tex]

a) The percentage of students who will score below 620 is a typical year is obtained below:Ф

[tex]\therefore P(x < 620)\ =\ P\left(\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma} < \frac{x-480}{100}\right)\\[/tex]

                        [tex]=\ P\left(\left(z\right) < \frac{620-480}{100}\right)[/tex]

                       [tex]=\ P\left(\left(z\right) < 1.4\right)[/tex]

                       [tex]=\ 1-P\left(\left(z\right) > 1.4\right)[/tex]

                       [tex]=1-0.4192[/tex]

                        [tex]=0.5808[/tex]

[tex]\therefore[/tex] the percentage of students will score below 620 in a typical year is 0.5808.

b) The average and standard deviation for ACT math score is :

[tex]\mu=18,[/tex] [tex]\sigma=6[/tex]

[tex]\therefore \ P\left(\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma} > \frac{x-18}{6}\right)=1[/tex]

[tex]=\ P\left(\left(z\right) > \frac{x-18}{6}\right)[/tex]

or  [tex]\frac{x-18}{6}=1[/tex]

     [tex]x =[/tex] 6 x 1 + 18

     [tex]x =[/tex] 24

[tex]\therefore[/tex] the score that the engineering school should set as a comparable standard on the ACT math test is 24 .

What is Standard deviation?

A standard deviation (or σ) is a measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean. Low standard deviation means data are clustered around the mean, and high standard deviation indicates data are more spread out.

What do you mean by average?

An average is defined as the sum of all the values divided by the total number of values in a given set. It is also known as the arithmetic mean.

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