Question

What type of skew is observed in this histogram?

symmetry



zero skew



negative skew



positive skew

Answer 1

The graph is negatively skewed because most of the data is on the left side. A positively skewed graph would be if most of the data is on the right side.

Answer 2

(B) Negative skew

Explanation:

The histogram shown has negative skew which is also known as the skewed left histogram. The histogram which is skewed towards left is known as the negative skew. in this kind of distribution, there are large number of occurrences in the upper value cells(right) and low in the lower value cells(left).

In the given histogram, the data is skewed towards left,therefore it has negative skew.