Suppose at the movie theatre you observe that a few patrons arrive early, but most arrive just moments before the movie begins, and no one arrives late. If you were to graph the distribution with time increasing from left to right, what could you say about the distribution of patron arrivals at the theatre?

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The majority of patrons arriving just moments before the movie begins indicates that the distribution is negatively skewed. This means that there are fewer observations on the right-hand side of the distribution and more on the left-hand side.

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