Question

A survey was conducted from a random sample of 8225 Americans, and one variable that was recorded for each participant was their answer to the question, "How old are you?" The mean of this data was found to be 42, while the median was 37. What does this tell you about the shape of this distribution?

a. It is skewed left.
b. It is symmetric.
c. There is not enough information.
d. It is skewed right

Answer 1

d. skewed right

Explanation:

The shape of the given distribution is rightly skewed. For a symmetric distribution mean and median are equal and if mean is greater than median then the distribution is rightly skewed and if mean is less than median then the distribution is skewed left.

In the given distribution mean is greater than median and so the given distribution is skewed right.