Question

Distribution

The distribution of employee incomes for a company is skewed. Which statement is true in that case?

a The median income and the mean income are the same.

b Half of the employees earn less than the mean income.

c The number of people on either side of the median is equal.

d The number of people on the right side of the mean is higher than that on the left side of the mean.

All is know is it's not a. @perl

Answer 1

hint: for a median it is always true , no matter how the data is distributed,
50 % of the data are less than the median, 50% of the data are more.

Answer 2

So it would be c?

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

Even for a skewed distribution?

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

Thanks.

Answer 7

the median is defined as that data point such that half of the data are before it, half of the data are above it.

Answer 8

the median is defined as that data point such that half of the data are less than it, half of the data are greater than it.

Answer 9

duh I wasn't even thinking about that. lol

Answer 10

:P