A large company has many employees and the annual salaries of those employees follow a normal distribution with a mean of $70,000 and a standard deviation of $12,000.  An employee has an annual salary of $80,000 a year. What is their z-score? Round to the nearest hundredth.  What percentile are they in?

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A large company has many employees and the annual salaries of those employees follow a normal distribution with a mean of $70,000 and a standard deviation of $12,000. 

An employee has an annual salary of $80,000 a year.

What is their z-score? Round to the nearest hundredth. 

What percentile are they in?

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