Question

Point A is plotted near the origin. The curve starts from point A and rises steeply upward and declines downward. Point B is plotted on the steep upward curve near the peak. Point C is plotted on the declining curve near the peak. The curve goes down to the level of point A and stretches to the right to join point D which is much farther away from the peak to the right.


A team of students were comparing the mean and median of a dot plot and noticed that the dots made a graph. They labeled the mean, median, minimum, and maximum of the graph. Which point is most likely the mean of the skewed data?

(1 point)
Responses

C

upper C

B

upper B

A

upper A

D

upper D
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Answer 1

C

Reason: The data are right-skewed (long tail to the right), so the mean is pulled toward the tail and lies to the right of the peak/median — matching point C.