SOLUTION: James Johnson, manager of quality control at Creative Auto Corp., just received a report from the assembly plant. The latest shipment of 200 lug bolts used to attach the wheels sho

Question 75987: James Johnson, manager of quality control at Creative Auto Corp., just received a report from the assembly plant. The latest shipment of 200 lug bolts used to attach the wheels showed a mean diameter of 18.01 mm and a median of 17.92 mm. Therefore, James can conclude that the distribution of the diameters of the lug bolts
a. is perfectly symmetric.
b. is skewed left.
c. is skewed right.
d. has a range of 0.09 mm.
Thank You
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
mean greater than median implies data is skewed right.
Cheers,
Stan H.
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