Aperson must score in the upper 2% of the population on an iq test to qualify for membership in mensa, the international high-iq society (us airways attache, september 2000). there are 110,000 mensa members in 100 countries throughout the world (mensa international website, january 8, 2013). if iq scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, what score must a person have to qualify for mensa (to the nearest whole number)?

Assume that there is a 11% rate of disk drive failure in a year. a. if all your computer data is stored on a hard disk drive with a copy stored on a second hard disk drive, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive? b. if copies of all your computer data are stored on four independent hard disk drives, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive?