Using the normal distribution, it is found that 0.1841 = 18.41% of students had a higher score than Amanda.
The z-score of a measure X of a normally distributed variable with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex] is given by:
[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]
The mean and the standard deviation for the grades are given as follows:
[tex]\mu = 850, \sigma = 100[/tex]
The proportion of students that had a higher grade than Amanda is one subtracted by the p-value of Z when X = 940, hence:
[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]
[tex]Z = \frac{940 - 850}{100}[/tex]
Z = 0.9
Z = 0.9 has a p-value of 0.8159.
1 - 0.8159 = 0.1841.
0.1841 = 18.41% of students had a higher score than Amanda.
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