A Bored Carpenter Counts the Actual Number of Nails in 10

question 294

Multiple Choice

A bored carpenter counts the actual number of nails in 10 boxes of nails and records his findings as: 230,235,302,287,312,323,265,319,342,and 298.What can we say about the shape of the distribution of the number of nails?

• A)symmetric
• B)skewed to the right
• C)approximately bell-shaped
• D)skewed to the left

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