Question

The Tacoma Narrows College of Engineering has an entrance exam. Applicant scores distribute normally around a mean of 500 with a standard deviation of 150. For the coming year, the 800 applicants have all taken the exam. Since the school limits each entering class to not more than 100, what should be the cutoff score on the exam for acceptance into the next class?

Answer 1

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100807012756AAMRQzZ

Answer 2

i hope that helps, it's a very similar problem.

Answer 3

unfortunately not :(

Answer 4

hmm, do you know the equations?

for Z?

Answer 5

http://www.ehow.com/how_4555631_calculate-zscore-statistics.html

this shows you how the z works

Answer 6

hmm, I really don't remember how to do this, I've been looking it up, and somewhat get an idea, but not enough to explain; sorry, good luck. I'll get back to you if I find out, Got to start on my hw now though..

Answer 7

thanks anyways ;)