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The following histogram gives the distribution of the difference between the actual and ideal weights for a sample of male college students. Ideal weights are responses to the question "What is your ideal weight"? The difference = actual -ideal.
-What is the approximate shape of the distribution?
A) Nearly symmetric.
B) Skewed to the left.
C) Skewed to the right.
D) Bimodal (has more than one peak).

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The following histogram gives the distribution of the difference between the actual and ideal weights for a sample of male college students. Ideal weights are responses to the question "What is your ideal weight"? The difference = actual -ideal. 
-What is the approximate shape of the distribution?
A) Nearly symmetric. 
B) Skewed to the left. 
C) Skewed to the right. 
D) Bimodal (has more than one peak).

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The shape of a distribution is described as nearly symmetric when the left and right sides of the histogram are approximately mirror images of each other.

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