Skewed Left and Skewed Right Graphs

What is the shape of the data?

• Symmetrical

• Skewed Right

• Skewed Left

• Uniform

What is the shape of the graph?

• Uniform

• Skewed Left

• Symmetrical

• Skewed Right

A graph is ______________when most of the data points are clustered near high values.

• skewed left

• skewed right

• symmetrical

• peak

A graph is ______________when most of the data points are clustered near lower values.

• skewed right

• skewed left 

• symmetrical

• peak

distribution where one side of the distribution has more values farther from the bulk of the data than the other side, so that the mean is not equal to the median

(a)  

A non-symmetric distribution that has a distinct tail.

• Skewed

• Bimodal

• Approximately Normal

• Uniform

What is the shape of the data? (a)  

• symmetrical

• skewed left

• skewed right

• bell curve

True or false, the data is skewed.

• True

• False

The list below shows the number of baseball cards seven people own.

130, 142, 145, 145, 150, 163, 121

An eighth person owns 842 baseball cards. What effect does the eighth person have on the distribution of the data?

• The data distribution will become skewed to the left.

• The data distribution will become skewed to the right.

• The data distribution will become more symmetrical.

• The data distribution will become less spread.

What is the shape of the data? (a)  

• symmetrical

• skewed left

• skewed right

• bell curve