You Recently Took a Statistics Exam in a Large Class

Multiple Choice

You recently took a statistics exam in a large class. The instructor tells the class that the scores were Normally distributed, with a mean of 72 (out of 100) and a standard deviation of 12. Your score was 96. You would like to know what proportion of students did better than you did. Unfortunately, your calculator batteries are dead and you must now rely on Normal tables. You need to find which of the following?

A) the area to the right of 96
B) the area to the left of 96
C) the area to the right of 2
D) the area to the left of 2