Office Workers Were Asked How Long It Took Them to Travel

question 23

Multiple Choice

Office workers were asked how long it took them to travel to work one morning.Here is the stem-and-leaf display.
Without actually finding the mean and the median,would you expect the mean to be higher or lower than the median?

• A)Lower,because the data are skewed to the right.
• B)Lower,because the data are skewed to the left.
• C)Higher,because the data are skewed to the left.
• D)Higher,because the data are skewed to the right.
• E)Neither,because the mean would be equal to the median.

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