A tax consultant analyzes the distribution of income tax payments and finds it is highly skewed to the right. Which statement best describes the characteristics of this distribution?

In a distribution skewed to the right, a small number of very high values stretch the tail toward the right. These high values pull the mean upward more than they affect the median, so the mean is greater than the median. Therefore, the best choice is “The mean is greater than the median.”

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