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A highly selective boarding school will only admit students who place at least standard deviations above the mean on a standardized test that has a mean of and a standard deviation of . What is the minimum score that an applicant must make on the test to be​ accepted?

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The given questions seems incomplete below is the correct question

A highly selective boarding school will only admit students who place at least 1.5 standard deviations above the mean on a standardized test that has a mean of 200 and a standard deviation of 26. What is the minimum score that an applicant must make on the test to be accepted?

Answer:

Minimum score is 239

Explanation:

Minimum score = mean + standard deviation above mean*standard deviation

= 200 + 1.5*26

= 200+ 39

Minimum score = 239

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