The ratio of number of residents in Henderson to the number of sex offenders is 1,342 to 1. The number of registered sex offenders compared to the number of residents in this city is smaller than the state average. Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Las Vegas, NV (15.8 miles , pop. 478,434).
Stress-Strain Curves A tensile test involves mounting the specimenin a machine, such as those described in the pre-vious section, and subjecting it to tension. Thetensile force is recorded as a function of the in-crease in gage length. Figure 4(a) shows a typ-ical curve for a ductile material.
A percentile (or a centile) is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example, the 20th percentile is the value (or score) below which 20% of the observations may be found. The term percentile and the related term percentile rank are often used in the reporting of scores from norm-referenced tests.