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Measures of Relative Position

This document discusses different measures of relative position such as z-scores, percentiles, and quartiles. It provides examples of calculating z-scores from given data means and standard deviations. It also explains how to compute percentiles and quartiles, with examples of finding quartiles and constructing box-and-whisker plots from data sets.

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Measures of Relative Position

This document discusses different measures of relative position such as z-scores, percentiles, and quartiles. It provides examples of calculating z-scores from given data means and standard deviations. It also explains how to compute percentiles and quartiles, with examples of finding quartiles and constructing box-and-whisker plots from data sets.

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Measures of

Relative Position
 Z-score
 Percentiles
 Quartiles
Z- score
SAMPLE
PROBLEMS
Example 1
Example 2
Scores on a history test have average of 80 with
standard deviation of 6. What is the z-score for a
student who earned a 75 on the test?
Example 3
The weight of chocolate bars from a particular
chocolate factory has a mean of 8 ounces with
standard deviation of .1 ounce. What is the z-score
corresponding to a weight of 8.17 ounces?
Example 4
Books in the library are found to have average
length of 350 pages with standard deviation of 100
pages. What is the z-score corresponding to a book
of length 80 pages?
Example 5
The temperature is recorded at 60 airports in a
region. The average temperature is 67 degrees
Fahrenheit with standard deviation of 5 degrees.
What is the temperature if the z-score is 0.2 ?
Example 6
A group of friends compares what they received
while trick or treating. They find that the average
number of pieces of candy received is 43, with
standard deviation of 2. How many pieces of candy
does someone has if he/she has -11.5 z-score?
Percentiles
Percentiles: the 99 characters ,…, and that
partition a ranked data set into 100
(approximately) equal group are called the
percentiles of the data.
Example 1
Example 2
Quartiles
Example 1
How to compute for quartile?
Example 2
Example of Box-and-Whisker Plot

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