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The given histogram is Poisitive or Right Skewed.So, in this case mean is greater than median .

This is because positive or right skewed data have few large values that drives the mean.

But median can not be affected by this large data values.

So, mean is greater than median

i.e. the median is smaller than mean

Option D ) is correct

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