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 http://www.cengagebrain.com, fi nd 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.

89 50 68 60 375 55 500 71 40 350 60 50 250 45 45 125 235 65 60 130

(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 refl ect 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?