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What is the shape of the data for Lucy's Steakhouse?Average Wait Times (min)Lucy's Steakhousea) skewed leftb) skewed rightc) symmetrical

What is the shape of the data for Lucy's Steakhouse?Average Wait Times (min)Lucy's-example-1
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Skewed right

The diagrams represent box and whiskers for lucy's steakhouse and Gary's Grill.

In a box and whisker, the box plot shape shows if a statistical data set is normally distributed or skewed.

It is normally distributed if the median is in the middle and the whiskers are about same length on both sides of the box.

This does not depict lucy's steakhouse.

For lucy's steakhouse:

The median is in the middle and the whiskers on the lower end of the box is shorter (left hand side) while the whisker on the upper end of the bosx is longer (right hand side).

As a result of the above, the distribution is positively skewed.

Hence, it is skewed right.

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