Question

If the mean of a positively skewed distribution is 122, which of these values could be the median of the distribution?
a. 130
b. 126
c. 118
d. 122

Answer 1

`positively skewed` means `skewed to the RIGHT`

when the distribution is skewed to the right, the mean is pulled to the right, so

mean > median

Answer 2

c is your answer The mean is larger than the median in a positively skewed distributionso the median is less than the mean in a positively skewed distribution118