which of the following best describes the distribution of data? negatively skewed postively skewed roughly symmetrical

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Flight 4581 travels daily from Pittsburg to San Antonio. The flight is due to San Antonio at 5:07pm the following list gives the flight 4581 arrival time relative to 507p for a selection of 17 days 

 

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which of the following best describes the distribution of data?

negatively skewed

postively skewed

roughly symmetrical

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Here,on analyzing the histogram of the data,we can see that the longer tail of the distribution which represents the data is towards the higher values of the variable.This type of graphical characteristics is mainly analogous to a positively skewed distribution.

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