The authors of the paper "Changes in Quantity, Spending, and Nutritional Characteristics of Adult, Adolescent and Child Urban Corner Store Purchases After an Environmental Intervention" wondered if increasing the availability of healthy food options would also increase the amount people spend at the corner store.
They collected data from a representative sample of 5,949 purchases at corner stores in Philadelphia after the stores increased their healthy food options.
The sample mean amount spent for this sample of purchases was $2.86 and the sample standard deviation was $5.40.
Notice that for this sample, the sample standard deviation is greater than the sample mean. What does this tell you about the distribution of purchase amounts?
A) The distribution of purchase amounts is positively skewed.
B) The distribution of purchase amounts is negatively skewed.
C) The distribution of purchase amounts is symmetric.
D) The distribution of purchase amounts is uniform.
