Determining How Many Students Scored Lower than Kevin

To find out how many students scored lower than Kevin, we need to follow these steps based on the information provided.

Understanding the Percentile

Kevin scored at the 65th percentile. This means that 65% of the students scored lower than he did. Given a total of 9840 students who took the test, we can calculate the number of students who scored lower than Kevin.

Calculation

1. Find 65% of 9840.

   [ \text{Number ofStudentsLowerThanKevin} = 0.65 \times 9840 ]

Let's perform the calculation:

[ 0.65 \times 9840 = 6408 ]

This means that 6408 students scored lower than Kevin.

Options Given

Now we compare our result with the options provided:

• A. 5940
• B. 6396
• C. 7250
• D. 8100

Conclusion

From our calculation, 6408 students scored lower than Kevin. Interestingly, this number does not match any of the options given. Therefore, it may be necessary to revisit either the understanding or the calculation parameters used regarding interpreting percentiles or if there was an error in the given options. However, based on the typical understanding of percentiles, we conclude that:

• No option provided is correct, as 6408 is the answer based on known percentile definitions.

Thus, the answer is 6408 students who scored lower than Kevin, which unfortunately does not align with the answer choices provided.