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You have given an entrance exam to 320 applicants to a university program. You only have the capacity to accept half of the applicants, so you want to set the qualifying grade so that everyone who scored above the 50th percentile is accepted. Which parameter should you calculate? If most of the grades are close to this value, would you observe that the distribution has low or high dispersion?

You have given an entrance exam to 320 applicants to a university program. You only have the capacity to accept half of the applicants, so you want to set the qualifying grade so that everyone who scored above the 50th percentile is accepted. Which parameter should you calculate? If most of the grades are close to this value, would you observe that the distribution has low or high dispersion?

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You have given an entrance exam to 320 applicants to a university program. You only have the capacity to accept half of the applicants, so you want to set the qualifying grade so that everyone who scored above the 50th percentile is accepted. Which parameter should you calculate? If most of the grades are close to this value, would you observe that the distribution has low or high dispersion?
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