The Marketing Agent for a Professional Sports Franchise Conducts a Survey

question 16

Multiple Choice

The marketing agent for a professional sports franchise conducts a survey asking people how much they support the construction of a new sports stadium.Almost everyone who takes part in the survey indicates they are strongly in favor of a new stadium; there are just a few respondents who think a new stadium would be a bad idea.When the results from the survey are plotted in a histogram,the distribution will be

• A) positively skewed.
• B) symmetrical.
• C) impossible to predict without more information.
• D) negatively skewed.

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