What is the meaning of percentile in statistics?

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I want to know what is the meaning of percentile.
what is the percentile : 23.79 means?
Please give me explanation and also examples.
Thanks!

 

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I want to know what is the meaning of percentile.
what is the percentile : 23.79 means?
Please give me explanation and also examples.
Thanks!

In statistics, a percentile (or centile) is the value of a variable below which a certain percent of observations fall.

Basically, if you get 23.79 percentile in an exam, it means you have the same or a higher score than 23.79% candidates.