Finding the proportion of IQs above 130 with mean 100 and standard deviation 15

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Given IQ scores are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15,
the proportion of people with IQs above 130 is:
$ a.\ 95\% \quad b.\ 68\% \quad c.\ 5\% \quad d.\ 2.5\% \quad e.\ 12\%$

ok its been some moons since I looked at a standard deviation graph
so my choice would be by dice.
 
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It's not a "standard deviation graph", it's a normal distribution graph.

130 is two standard deviations above the mean. How much of the data will be within two standard deviations from the mean? So how much for each tail?
 
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