Ron thinks he's kind of a big deal and decides to challenge Veronica to an Anchor-person Aptitude Test (AAT). The average anchor person scores 100 points (out of 200 possible points), with a standard deviation of 4.5 points. Brick, the newsroom shuttle diplomat, gets both parties to agree that being a "big deal" would require an anchor person's score to beat 97.5% of the other scores. Ron scores 111 and Veronica scores 117. Assuming SAT scores are normally distributed, which of the following statement is true

a) Only Ron is a Big Deal.
b) Both Veronica and Ron are a Big Deal.
c) Only Veronica is a Big Deal.
d) Neither Veronica nor Ron are a Big Deal

b) Both Veronica and Ron are a Big Deal.

Step-by-step explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean and standard deviation , the zscore of a measure X is given by:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this problem, we have that:

Big deal:

Beat 97.5% of the other scores, which means that Z must have a pvalue of at least 0.975.

Ron

Scored 111, so

has a pvalue of 0.9927, so Ron is a big deal

Veronica

Scored 117, so

has a pvalue of 1, so Veronica is a big deal

So the correct answer is:

b) Both Veronica and Ron are a Big Deal.

3. (5x + 1) - (-10x + 6)

simplify the answer choice. combine like terms. remember to distribute the negative to the terms inside the second parenthesis. also remember that two negatives = one positive, and one of each sign = negative.

- (-10x + 6) = + 10x - 6

simplify. combine like terms:

5x + 1 + 10x - 6

5x + 10x + 1 - 6

15x - 5

∴ it is your answer

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