<p>What do you think average scores would be?</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity ;)</p>
<p>I’d say they would probably go down to around 420.</p>
<p>Hmmm… Well, assuming people between 15 and 50 all do about the same, and it tapers off to zero from 15 to 0 and from 50 to 80 (say, linearly), then all you have to do is get the average for people taking the test now, and then drop a line from the point (15, <score>) to (0,0) and from (50, <score>) to (80, 0). Then integrate and divide by 80 to get the average score.</score></score></p>
<p>If you feel like people 80 years old are too young to consider “dead” for the purposes of doing an SAT, make it 85 or 90.</p>
<p>For my example, I believe it works out to about %70 of the average score for people actually taking the test.</p>
<p>You could probably get a better approximation by realizing that only the top (blank) percent even take the test (count the # of high school juniors / seniors taking the test and divide by the total # of high school juniors / seniors). Then assume that for those taking the test, their scores would be in the top (blank) percent. Then have a linear model from (1/2 the # of students, <score for=“” people=“” taking=“” the=“” test=“”>) down to (0 students, 0). Then integrate this to get the total score for people and divide by the # of students (total) to get the average score. Then use this in my formula above.</score></p>
<p>You coulda just thrown out a number :p</p>
<p>@ AuburnMathTutor, huh?
you are over complicating things. lol</p>