Consider the histogram shown below. Determine whether the mean is less than, equal to or greater than the median.
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The mean is close to the median since the distribution is symmetric.
The mean is greater than the median since the distribution is skewed to the right.
The mean is less than the median since the distribution is skewed to the left.
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