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the histogram shows the duration, in minutes, of movies in theaters.
duration of movies
what relationship between the median and mean is shown by the histogram?
the mean is less than the median.
the median is less than the mean.
the mean is equal to the median.
the median and mean cannot be compared from a histogram.
First, identify the histogram's skew: the tail extends to the right (higher durations have fewer movies, pulling the mean toward the right). In right-skewed distributions, the mean is pulled above the median, so the median is less than the mean.
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The median is less than the mean.