Question

A report states that the mean household income last year for a certain rural county was $46,200 and the median was $54,500. If a histogram were constructed for the incomes of all households in the county, would you expect it to be skewed to the right, to the left, or approximately symmetric

Answer 1

skewed to the left

Explanation:

A histogram is used to represent data graphically. the histogram is made up of rectangles whose area is equal to the frequency of the data and whose width is equal to the class interval. the frequency is usually on the vertical axis while the class interval is usually on the horizontal axis.

If the mean is greater than the median, the histogram would be skewed to the right

If the mean is less than the median, the histogram would be skewed to the left.

The mean in this question is $46,200 while the median is $54,500. So, the histogram would be skewed to the left