Question

a tax consultant analyzes the distribution of income tax payments and finds it is highly skewed to the right. which statement best describes the characteristics of this distribution? the median is greater than the mean. the mean is greater than the median. the distribution has a symmetrical shape. the mean and median are approximately equal.

Explanation:

In a right-skewed distribution, the mean is pulled toward the long right tail (the high-value outliers), making it larger than the median. Symmetrical distributions have equal mean and median, which does not apply here.

Answer:

The mean is greater than the median.