In a statistics class with 136 students, the professor records how much money ea
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Question
In a statistics class with 136 students, the professor records how much money each student has in his or her possession on the first day of class. The following frequency table shows the results. If a histogram is made using the intervals in the table, what would the shape be?
Amount of money Number of students
0-9.99 32
10-19.99 43
20-29.99 20
30-39.99 5
40-49.99 4
50-59.99 2
symmetric
skewed left
skewed right
symmetric
skewed left
skewed right
Explanation / Answer
clearly most of distribution is within 0 to 30, and average would be in range 10 to 20. Also, there is a thin distribution towards the right of this average (and not left) , thus given data is right skewed