A salary survey reports a mean of $58,000, a median of $46,000, and a mode of $40,000. Which shape best describes this distribution?

1. Compare the three centers: mode $40,000 < median $46,000 < mean $58,000. 2. When the mode is less than the median and the median less than the mean, the long tail stretches toward high values. 3. A long right tail is the signature of a distribution skewed to the right, with the mean pulled up by high salaries. 4. So the salary distribution is skewed to the right. 5. Option C would require the mean and the median to be equal, which they are not here. _Source: OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "Descriptive Statistics", section 2.6 Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode_