Question

alex records the running - time—the number of minutes a movie lasts from start to finish—of 50 popular movies. the distribution of times, in minutes, is displayed in the histogram below. movie running times which of the following correctly describes the shape of the distribution? uniform skewed left skewed right roughly symmetric

Explanation:

In a symmetric distribution, the left - hand side of the histogram is a mirror image of the right - hand side. In a right - skewed distribution, the tail of the distribution extends to the right. In a left - skewed distribution, the tail extends to the left. In a uniform distribution, all intervals have roughly the same frequency. Looking at the given histogram of movie running times, the frequencies on the left side of the peak are not mirror images of those on the right side. The tail of the distribution extends to the right, meaning there are some movies with relatively long running times compared to the majority. So, it is skewed right.

Answer:

skewed right