Parking at a University Has Become a Problem

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Essay

Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it takes a student to find a parking spot. An administrator inconspicuously followed 190 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. The times had a distribution that was skewed to the left. Based on this information, discuss the relationship between the mean and the median for the 190 times collected.

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