It is useful to describe the shape of data. It can be symmetrical or have a positive or negative skew. Data with a positive skew has a long tail in the positive direction of the horizontal axis. Data with a negative skew has....
Skew and Distribution

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Mathematics
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10th Grade
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Hard
Anthony Clark
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a long tail in the direction of the negative horizontal access
a long tail in the direction of the positive horizontal access
2.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Make notes now on the shapes of distributions and how the mean, median and mode might predict the skew of a distribution. Page 180-181 in the Statistics GCSE book will help. Let me know you have completed this task by writing a message bekow,
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3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A positive number means positive skew. Negative number means negative skew, What do you think 0 means?
Very negatively skewed
Moderate negative skew
Symmetrical data
Moderate positive skew
Very positive skew
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The data in the picture:
is negatively skewed
positively skewed
symmetrical
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Skewed up box
Skewed to the left
Skewed to the right
6.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A histogram that is negatively skewed if its (a) tail is (b) than right tail
left
right
longer
shorted
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Box plots can display the skew of data. The position of the median relative to the quartiles describes the skew. Match the box plots to the correct graphs below
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