An Aptitude Test Has a Mean Score of 80 and a Standard

question 85

Multiple Choice

An aptitude test has a mean score of 80 and a standard deviation of 5. The population of scores is normally distributed. What raw score corresponds to the 70th percentile?

• A) 77.4
• B) 83.5
• C) 82.6
• D) 76.5

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