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1.

Your instructor announces to the class that anyone with a midterm exam score of 63% scored in the 80th
percentile.  If you received a score of 63% how did you do in relation to your classmates?
2. A test consists of 40 marks. Fifty students wrote the test and their scores are in the table below. Determine
the percentiles that are associated with scores of:
a.
a. 15
b. 25
c. 37

3. An employee at a large manufacturing company learns that their salary is in the 45th percentile. If the
median salary at the company is $56,000/year can we conclude that this employee’s annual salary is more
than $56,000?

Your instructor announces to the class that the third quartile for the midterm exam was a score of 88%.   If
you received a score of 88% how did you do in relation to your classmates?

4. A cell phone provider is trying to improve its service by reducing the amount of time that its help desk
spends with each customer. It kept track of the average length of time (to the nearest minute) each of its 33 
employees spent with customers.

a. Determine the mean, median and mode for average wait times.
b. Determine the percentiles that correspond to help times of 14 minutes, 23 minutes and 47 minutes.
c. Determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quartiles for average help times.

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