Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 0-49580-891-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-49580-891-6

Chapter 2 - Exploring Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphs - Problems - Page 38: 2.14

Answer

Right

Work Step by Step

By definition, a positively skewed distribution has more points on the lower end of the spectrum and some points on the higher end of the spectrum. The mean of a positively skewed distribution is higher than its median. Therefore, the narrow point is to the right.
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