the average distance a worker in the United States lives from their place of employment is 16 miles.

• What is the distance between where you live and where you work? Is it more or less than the given average?
• Howwould your distance affect the given average, if included in the data set?
• Doyou think the distribution of distances is right-skewed, left-skewed, or symmetric? Give reasons for your answer and give one other real-world example of one of these types of distributions.