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Karl receives his first mark of the year in his law course. He scores 94th percentile. What is his mark!?

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Even though only 6% of students scored higher than Karl, we cannot know his personal score based on his percentile. He could have gotten a 62, as long as everyone else [94% of the class] got an even lower score.

So, we cannot know Karl's mark, we are only able to understand Karl's score in relation to the rest of the students in his law course.

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