L4 Percentiles
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Unit E: Statistics and Probability
Chapter 1: Statistics
Percentiles
Jared's final exam mark for chemistry and English are in the table below.
Jared wonders which of his marks is better. Jared received a higher exam mark in chemistry but a higher percentile rank in English.
What exactly is the difference between percent and percentile rank?
| Course
|
Final Exam Mark
|
Percentile Rank |
|---|---|---|
| chemistry
|
87% | 84% |
| English
|
79% | 92% |
Jared wonders which of his marks is better. Jared received a higher exam mark in chemistry but a higher percentile rank in English.
What exactly is the difference between percent and percentile rank?
In this lesson, percentile rank will be used to compare a given value to the other values in a set of data.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to
- explain percentile rank
- explain decisions based on a given percentile rank
- explain the difference between percent and percentile rank
- explain the relationship between median and percentile
- solve a contextual problem that uses percentiles