Question

1. looking at the old how old is the oldest person you know? prudential insurance company asked 400 people to place a blue sticker on a huge wall next to the age of the oldest person they have ever known. an image of the graph is shown here. describe the shape of the distribution.

Explanation:

Looking at the graph, we can observe that the distribution has a long tail on the left - hand side. In statistics, when a distribution has a long tail on the left, it is called a left - skewed (or negatively skewed) distribution. The majority of the data points are concentrated on the right - hand side (higher ages), and there are relatively fewer data points on the left - hand side (lower ages).

Answer:

The distribution is left - skewed (negatively skewed).