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A college professor collected data on the number of hours spent by his 100 students over the weekend to prepare for Monday’s Business Statistics exam. He processed the data by Excel and the following incomplete output is available. Mean 18Sample Variance 6.89Skewness 1.07 The median is most likely to be __________.Multiple ChoiceCannot tell from the information providedgreater than 18 hoursless than 18 hoursabout 18 hours

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A college professor collected data on the number of hours spent by his 100 students over the weekend to prepare for Monday’s Business Statistics exam. He processed the data by Excel and the following incomplete output is available. Mean 18Sample Variance 6.89Skewness 1.07 The median is most likely to be __________.Multiple ChoiceCannot tell from the information providedgreater than 18 hoursless than 18 hoursabout 18 hours

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The skewness of the data is positive (1.07), which indicates that the distribution of the data is skewed to the right. In a right-skewed distribution, the mean is typically greater than the median. Therefore, the median is most likely to be less than 18 hours.

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