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2. Box-and-Whisker Plots
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Exercise 18 Page 344

If the data set distribution is skewed left, then most of the data are on the right side of the plot.

See solution.

Practice makes perfect

Consider the given box-and-whisker plot and its description.

We are asked to find and correct the error from the given description. To do so, we will go through the whole process of identifying the shape of a distribution. We are told that the distribution is skewed right, which is correct since the left whisker is greater than the right whisker. Therefore, most of the data is on the right side of the plot, not on the left side. This is the error.