Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 84

Leisure: Maui Vacation How expensive is Maui If you want a vacation rental condominium (up to four people), visit the Brase/Brase statistics site at www.cengagebrain.com , find the link to Maui, and then search for accommodations. The Maui News gave the following costs in dollars per day for a random sample of condominiums located throughout the island of Maui.

(a) Compute the mean, median, and mode for the data.
(b) Compute a 5% trimmed mean for the data, and compare it with the mean computed in part (a). Does the trimmed mean more accurately reflect the general level of the daily rental costs
(c) Interpretation If you were a travel agent and a client asked about the daily cost of renting a condominium on Maui, what average would you use Explain. Is there any other information about the costs that you think might be useful, such as the spread of the costs