A distribution or set of observations is said to be skewed right or positively skewed if it has a longer "tail" of numbers on the right. The mass of the distribution is more towards the left of the figure rather than the middle.
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When the data are skewed to the right the measure of skewness will be positive.
When a distribution is skewed to the right, the mean is greater than median.
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False. It can be skewed to the left or right or be symmetrical.
As the mean is greater than the median it will be positively skewed (skewed to the right), and if the median is larger than the mean it will be negatively skewed (skewed to the left)