Data on the change in the cost of tuition, a shared dormitory room, and the most popular meal plan from one academic year to the next academic year for a sample of 100 public universities are collected. Below is the boxplot for the change in cost in dollars. The distribution of the change in cost is
A) right-skewed.
B) left-skewed.
C) symmetrical.
D) none of the above

Question

Data on the change in the cost of tuition, a shared dormitory room, and the most popular meal plan from one academic year to the next academic year for a sample of 100 public universities are collected. Below is the boxplot for the change in cost in dollars. The distribution of the change in cost is 
A) right-skewed. 
B) left-skewed. 
C) symmetrical. 
D) none of the above

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The boxplot suggests that the distribution of the change in cost is right-skewed because the box is squished to the left with the median and Q1 closer to the minimum and the upper whisker shows that some universities had much larger increases in cost compared to others.

Data on the Change in the Cost of Tuition, a Shared