Apsychologist attained a sample of 35 first-year undergraduate students who had joined an internet social networking community on the first day of the semester. after three days, she asked each student how many friends he or she had developed in the community. she found that the mean number of friends was 38, the median 25 and the mode, 24 with a frequency of 7 occurrences.

a. report these results in the form that would be used for a journal presentation

b. do you think the distribution of friends reported is skewed? what aspects of the descriptive statistics lead you to this conclusion?