Question

the owner of a local movie theater keeps track of the number of tickets sold in each purchase. the owner determines the probabilities based on these records. let x represent the number of tickets bought in one purchase. the distribution for x is displayed in the histogram. what is the shape of this histogram?
○ skewed left
○ skewed right
○ uniform, symmetric
○ approximately normal

Explanation:

A skewed - right histogram has a tail on the right side. In this histogram, the taller bars are on the left (for \(x = 2\)), and as \(x\) increases (to \(x=3,4,5\)), the bars get shorter. The tail is on the right side. A uniform histogram has bars of approximately equal height. A symmetric histogram has a mirror - image on either side of the center. An approximately normal histogram is bell - shaped. Since the tail is on the right, it is skewed right.

Answer:

skewed right