A certain health maintenance organization (HMO) examined the number of office visits by its members in the last year. This data set would probably be skewed to the left due to low outliers.

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Skewed to the left means that the majority of the data is clustered on the right side of the distribution with a long tail to the left. Low outliers (extreme values on the lower end of the data) would pull the distribution towards the right and create a right skew. Therefore, the data set is more likely to be skewed to the right.

A Certain Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Examined the Number of Office