In a recent year, the 817 professional baseball players had salaries with the following characteristics: 

• The mean was \($3,250,178\). 

• The median was \($1,152,000\). 

• The salaries ranged from a low of \($400,000\) to a high of \($33,000,000\). 

a. Describe the shape of the distribution of salaries. Is the distribution symmetric? Is it left-skewed? Is it right-skewed? 

b. About how many players had salaries of \($1,152,000\) or higher?