When collecting surveys about the number of offenses people commit, you find that 60% committed zero offenses and the other 40% committed between 1 and 10 offenses. The shape of this distribution would be ______.

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The distribution is positively skewed because a large number of responses cluster at the lower end (zero offenses), with fewer responses (offenses) stretching out towards the higher end (1 to 10 offenses). This creates a long tail to the right of the distribution.

When Collecting Surveys About the Number of Offenses People Commit