Find all School-related info fast with the new School-Specific MBA Forum
Learn more about the recent changes... close

It is currently 17 Jun 2013, 21:59
Customize  |  Hide

Search
Register
New posts
Unanswered

10 kids in a class.the highest grade was 96.the median grade

  Question banks Downloads My Bookmarks Reviews  
  Oldest Best Reply
Search for:
 
Print view
First unread post
Author Message
TAGS:
Intern
Intern
Joined: 31 May 2003
Posts: 6
Location: New Jersey
Followers: 0

Kudos [?]: 0 [0], given: 0

10 kids in a class.the highest grade was 96.the median grade [#permalink] New post 30 Jul 2003, 19:59
10 kids in a class.the highest grade was 96.the median grade was 86.if john scored 1.2sd below the median, what was his score.

Sanjay
Intern
Intern
Joined: 31 May 2003
Posts: 6
Location: New Jersey
Followers: 0

Kudos [?]: 0 [0], given: 0

 [#permalink] New post 30 Jul 2003, 20:00
sd is standard deviation
GMAT Instructor
User avatar
Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 773
Location: New York NY 10024
Schools: Haas, MFE; Anderson, MBA; USC, MSEE
Followers: 5

Kudos [?]: 9 [0], given: 0

GMAT Tests User
Re: SD [#permalink] New post 30 Jul 2003, 20:15
sanjaymishra wrote:
10 kids in a class.the highest grade was 96.the median grade was 86.if john scored 1.2sd below the median, what was his score.

Sanjay


IMO, this problem is not solvable with the infomation given. We need to be given the SD (ETS doesn't expect anyone to compute an SD, and there is not nearly enough information to compute it anyway).
_________________

Best,

AkamaiBrah
Former Senior Instructor, Manhattan GMAT and VeritasPrep
Vice President, Midtown NYC Investment Bank, Structured Finance IT
MFE, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Class of 2005
MBA, Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Class of 1993

Re: SD   [#permalink] 30 Jul 2003, 20:15
    Similar topics Author Replies Last post
Similar
Topics:
 New posts Experts publish their posts in the topic Grade Inflation homerfan33 1 23 Jun 2005, 01:43
New posts Grades Shmades? aaudetat 5 18 Sep 2007, 21:48
New posts Grades and disclosure Toubab 9 29 Jan 2009, 23:16
New posts Grading Sleepy 3 13 Nov 2009, 00:01
New posts Experts publish their posts in the topic 10 students took a chemistry exam that was graded on a scale ace001 2 30 Jun 2010, 20:00
Display posts from previous: Sort by

10 kids in a class.the highest grade was 96.the median grade

  Question banks Downloads My Bookmarks Reviews  
Print view
First unread post

Moderators: VeritasPrepKarishma, Bunuel

Search for:


GMAT Club MBA Forum Home| About| Privacy Policy| Terms and Conditions| GMAT Club Rules| Contact| Sitemap

Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group and phpBB SEO

Kindly note that the GMAT® test is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admission Council®, and this site has neither been reviewed nor endorsed by GMAC®.

Main navigation

GMAT Resources

Partners

MBA Resources

www.gmac.com|www.mba.com