5.3.5 - Percentiles
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Practice Questions
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Define percentiles in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think of it like slicing a pizza into 100 equal pieces for analysis.
What is P50?
💡 Hint: Consider where the middle of the dataset lies.
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What does the 82nd percentile signify?
💡 Hint: Remember the definition of percentile.
True or False: The median is another name for the 50th percentile.
💡 Hint: Visualize a dataset to recall where the median sits.
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If a student scores 85 in a standardized test with 200 candidates, what is the student's percentile rank?
💡 Hint: Calculate how many scored lower than 85.
Given the dataset: 30, 22, 25, 29, 27, calculate Q2 and Q3.
💡 Hint: First find Q2, which is the median, then analyze the upper half of the data for Q3.
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