Last year over 12,000 students took an entrance exam at a certain state university. Yolanda's score was at the 82nd percentile. Pablo's score was at the 21st percentile. (a) Which of the following must be true about Yolanda's score? Yolanda scored higher than about 18% of the students who took the exam. About 18% of the students who took the exam scored higher than Yolanda. Yolanda got about 82% of the questions correct. Yolanda got about 82% of the questions wrong. (b) Which of the following must be true about Yolanda's and Pablo's scores? Yolanda scored higher than Pablo. Both Yolanda and Pablo scored higher than the median. Yolanda got 61 more questions correct than Pablo. Yolanda's and Pablo's scores were both in the bottom half of all scores.
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