Data on the change in the cost of tuition,a shared dormitory room,and the most popular meal plan from one academic year to the next academic year for a sample of 100 public universities were collected.Below is the boxplot for the change in cost in dollars.The distribution of the change in cost is
A)right-skewed.
B)symmetrical.
C)left-skewed.
D)None of the above.

Question

Data on the change in the cost of tuition,a shared dormitory room,and the most popular meal plan from one academic year to the next academic year for a sample of 100 public universities were collected.Below is the boxplot for the change in cost in dollars.The distribution of the change in cost is 
A)right-skewed. 
B)symmetrical. 
C)left-skewed. 
D)None of the above.

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The boxplot shows a longer whisker in the upper side and the median is not exactly in the middle, indicating that the data is more spread on the right side, which means it is skewed to the right.

Data on the Change in the Cost of Tuition,a Shared