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Subject: percentile ranking
Details: Refer to the science scores of the 12 students below:

75 80 68 53 99 58 76 73 85 88 91 79

Find the percentile rank for the score 85. Give a brief interpretation of this percentile rank.

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Subject: percentile ranking
Details: Refer to the science scores of the 12 students below:

75 80 68 53 99 58 76 73 85 88 91 79

Find the percentile rank for the score 85. Give a brief interpretation of this percentile rank.

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A percentile rank is the proportion of scores in a distribution that a specific score is greater than or equal to.

First, place the raw scores in order from ...

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