Question

A group of college students are asked: "Including elementary, middle school, high school, trade school, and college, how many schools have you attended?" The histogram shown represents their responses. Describe the shape of this distribution.

Answer 1

This histogram can be described as slightly skewed righted, with the center around 4 schools and spread from 0 to 17 schools with possible outliers.

Explanation:

Looking at the data on the histogram given, it is clear that the majority of those students asked attended between 4 - 6 schools, with 4 schools being the center. A distribution that is skewed to the right shows is generally said to be positively skewed with the higher occurrences in the lower values (left side) and fewer occurrences in the higher values (right side).