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?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that in a survey of  8225 Americans, age was recorded.

Mean was 42 while median was 37.

Hence here median < mean.

Whenever we have mean greater than median we can say that the data is skewed to the right.

If symmetrical mean, median will coincide.  If mean differs from median, then it is not symmetrical but skewed.

When mean > median, then we have this is skewed to the right.