Imagine That You're Watching Popcorn Pop

question 87

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you're watching popcorn pop. A few kernels pop early, a few kernels pop late, but most pop in between. If you were to graph the distribution with time increasing from left to right, what could you say about the distribution of kernel popping?

• A) The distribution is normally distributed.
• B) The distribution is positively skewed.
• C) The distribution is negatively skewed.
• D) The distribution is inversely skewed.

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