Below Is a Stem-And-Leaf Display of Prices for a Sample

question 15

Multiple Choice

Below is a stem-and-leaf display of prices for a sample of homes recently sold in a metropolitan area in Canada. Which of the following statements is true?

• A) The mean would be more appropriate than the median to describe the centre of this distribution.
• B) This distribution is fairly symmetric.
• C) This distribution is right-skewed.
• D) This distribution is left-skewed.
• E) We are unable to analyze skewness of these data.

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