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Suppose that a university offers a scholarship to applicants that scored in the top 3% on...

Suppose that a university offers a scholarship to applicants that scored in the top 3%
on the GRE. If the GRE is normally distributed with a mean of 500 and standard
deviation of 100, how high does a GRE score have to be to qualify for this scholarship?

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