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Percentiles and Box Plots · Challenge problem

Fifty students take a test; no two scores are equal. Mo's score is at the 3030th percentile (30%30\% of scores below his). The teacher then reports each student's number of points lost, 100−score100 - \text{score}. At what percentile is Mo's points-lost value?