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How would you describe the "skew" of this graph?

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We are given the following image

and are asked how one would describe the skew of it.

The skew is considered as the displacement of the graph relative to a symmetric form. Thesymmetic form of preference is that of a Gaussian shape, were there is a maximum in the center of the graph, and equal distributions to the right and to the left of it.

This graph is clearly missing distribution towards the left of 20,000. So we can refer to it as "right skewed" graph (has more distribution to the right than to the left..

How would you describe the "skew" of this graph?-example-1
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