Question

A school creates a histogram representing the individual travel times for students riding the bus to school. The histogram is right-skewed, and the mean time is 25 minutes.

Which statement best describes the possible value of the median time of students riding the bus to school?

The median time is less than 25 minutes.
The median time is exactly equal to 25 minutes.
The median time is approximately equal to 25 minutes.
The median time is greater than 25 minutes.

Answer 1

Answer: Choice A

The median time is less than 25 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation: Its (A) on edge 2023

Answer 2

Answer: Choice A

The median time is less than 25 minutes.

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Reason:

The data is right-skewed. For such data sets, there are outliers larger than the main cluster. Large outliers pull on the mean to make it larger than it should be. This in turn indicates that median < mean.

So if the mean = 25 minutes, then the median is something smaller than this.