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A researcher who is in charge of an educational study wants subjects to perform some special skill. Fearing that people who are unusually talented or unusually untalented could distort the results, he decides to use people who scored in the middle 60% on a certain test. If the mean for the population is 100 and the standard deviation is 10, find the two limits (upper and lower) for the scores that would enable a volunteer to participate in the study. Assume the scores are normally distributed.

Refer to the table of values (Area Under the Standard Normal Distribution) as needed. If necessary, round your answer to the nearest whole number.

A volunteer with a test score between __ and __ can participate in the study.
 
 
 

 

 
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we are given 

mean = 100

standard deviation = 10

we need to the middle 60% data range

i.e we need the value of the 20th percentile and 80th percentile

 

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