In a recent year, the 868 professional baseball players had salaries with the following characteristics:

• The mean was $4,214,614.
• The median was $1,650,000.
• The salaries ranged from a low of $507,500 to a high of $31,000,000.

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 $1,650,000 or higher?