Question

for which of the following distributions is the mean most likely to be less than the median?

Explanation:

When a distribution is left-skewed (negatively skewed), the mean is pulled toward the tail of the distribution, making it less than the median. The first histogram has its tail extending to the left (smaller values), so it is left-skewed. The other histograms are either right-skewed or symmetric, where the mean is greater than or equal to the median.

Answer:

The first leftmost histogram (the one with bars decreasing in height from right to left, with the tail on the left side)