Question

According to a 2019 article at Insider.com, the state of Pennsylvania was at the 82nd percentile for Pre-K to 12th grade education and was at the oth percentile for higher education. Explain what these values mean .

Answer 1

From the percentile concept, it means that:

• From Pre-K to 12th grade, Pennsylvania is better than 82% of the states, and worse than 18%.
• At higher education, Pennsylvania is better than o% of the states, and worse than (100 - o)%.

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• When a measure is in the xth percentile of a data-set, it is greater than x% of the measures and lesser than (100 - x)%.

Thus, applying the concept of percentile to the context of this problem, we have that:

• From Pre-K to 12th grade, Pennsylvania is better than 82% of the states, and worse than 18%.
• At higher education, Pennsylvania is better than o% of the states, and worse than (100 - o)%.

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