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Once you have the center and range of your data, you can begin to describe its shape. The skew of a dataset is a description of the data’s symmetry.

A dataset with one prominent peak, and similar tails to the left and right is called symmetric. The median and mean of a symmetric dataset are similar.

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A histogram with a tail that extends to the right is called a right-skewed dataset. The median of this dataset is less than the mean.

histogram

A histogram with one prominent peak to the right, and a tail that extends to the left is called a left-skewed dataset. The median of this dataset is greater than the mean.

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Replace the question marks in ?????????-skew with left, right, or no.

no in this circumstance represents a symmetric dataset.

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Replace the question marks in average is ?????????? than the median with greater or less.

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