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What factors contribute to a skewed distribution? Provide an example, not from the text, that might have variables that would skew the data and graph of data points.

Note: Please see your text on what skewed (left/right) graphs mean for the data. It does not mean that the data was made up or collected incorrectly.

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An restaurant records the number of ice cream cones sold on every day in February. On all but 3 of the days the number of cones sold is between 5 and ...

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