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Students in an introductory statistics course were asked to count the number of scars on their dominant hand (the one they write with the most). The results are displayed in the provided boxplot.

-The distribution of the number of scars would be classified as
A) skewed to the left.
B) roughly symmetric.
C) skewed to the right.

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Students in an introductory statistics course were asked to count the number of scars on their dominant hand (the one they write with the most). The results are displayed in the provided boxplot.
 
-The distribution of the number of scars would be classified as
A) skewed to the left. 
B) roughly symmetric. 
C) skewed to the right.

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The distribution of the number of scars is likely to be skewed to the right because most people have few scars, but a small number of people might have many scars, creating a long tail on the right side.

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