Percentiles are a measure of the relative standing of observation within a data.

Percentiles
divide a set of observations into 100 equal parts, and percentile scores are frequently used to
report results from national standardized tests such as NAT, GAT, etc.

The pth percentile is the value Y(p) in order statistic such that p percent of the values are less than
the value Y(p) and (100-p) percent of the values are greater Y(p) . The 5th percentile is denoted by
P5

, the 10th by P10 and 95th by P95

In other words you did "as well or better than 77% of the class"

(Why take half of B? Because you shouldn't imagine you got the "Best B", or the "Worst B", just
an average B.)

Time (hours) People

0 0

2 350

4 1100

6 2400

8 6500

10 8850

12 10,000

2. The weights (in kg) of 35 persons are given below:

43, 51, 47, 62, 48, 40, 50, 62, 53, 56, 40, 48, 56, 53, 50, 42, 55, 52, 48, 46, 45, 54, 52, 50, 47, 44,
54, 55, 60, 63, 58, 55, 60, 58, 53