Spirit Airlines kept track of the number of empty seats on flight 308 (DEN-DTW) for 10 consecutive trips on each weekday except Friday.
(a) Sort the data for each day.
(b) Find the mean, median, mode, midrange, geometric mean, and 10 percent trimmed mean (i.e., dropping the first and last sorted observations) for each day.
(c) Do the measures of center agree? Explain.
(d) Note strengths or weaknesses of each statistic of center for the data.
Monday: 6, 1, 5, 9, 1, 1, 6, 5, 5, 1
Tuesday: 1, 3, 3, 1, 4, 6, 9, 7, 7, 6
Wednesday: 6, 0, 6, 0, 6, 10, 0, 0, 4, 6
Thursday: 1, 1, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1