Histogram Dilemma

[CasIsBad@Math]

My homework question is: "A geographer randomly selects twenty points in a county to study the elevation. One point is on a large hill while the other points are near water level. What is the shape of the distribution?". I was simply told by my teacher that it's "skewed right".. but how do you know? I don't understand how the answer comes to this conclusion...

 

[Harry_the_cat]

If your horizontal axis is measured in metres (or feet) above water level, and the vertical is frequency.
Can you try to draw a rough histogram where most points are represented down the low end and one point up the high end?

 

[BigBeachBanana]

Consider this following dataset: Can you make a histogram with it?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Instead of plotting 'x vs. y' try plotting 'log(x) vs. y' .

This transformation will reduce the 'visual ' impact of the outlier.

The height (or depth) is never negative - so the data are skewed to the right and not symmetric about the origin.