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The number of consumer complaints against the top U.S. airlinesin 2013 in given in the following table.
Airline Complaints
Complaints per 100,000
Passengers Boarding
Southwest Airlines 397 0.34
Alaska Airlines 86 0.44
Delta Airlines 713 0.59
JetBlue Airways 192 0.63
AirTran Airways 130 0.73
SkyWest Airlines 217 0.80
Mesa Airlines 71 0.85
Endeavor Air 113 0.86
ExpressJet Airlines 319 0.96
Hawaiian Airlines 105 1.06
Virgin America 81 1.28
US Airways 806 1.42
American Eagle Airlines 303 1.70
American Airlines 1730 1.99
United Airlines 1935 2.14
Frontier Airlines 316 3.09
(a) By considering the numbers in the colum labeled"Complaints," caclulate the mean and median number of complaintsper airline.
(b) Explain why the averages found in part (a) are notmeaningful.
(c) Find the mean and median of the numbers in the columnlabeled "Complaints per 100,000 Passengers Boarding." Discusswhether these averages are meaningful.

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a Total number of complaints397867131921302177111331910581806303173019353167514 No of airlines is 16 Mean number of complaints 751416469625 Now arranging the number of complaints in a order increasing it would be 71 81 86 105 113 130 192 See Answer

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Airline	Complaints	Complaints per 100,000 Passengers Boarding
Southwest Airlines	397	0.34
Alaska Airlines	86	0.44
Delta Airlines	713	0.59
JetBlue Airways	192	0.63
AirTran Airways	130	0.73
SkyWest Airlines	217	0.80
Mesa Airlines	71	0.85
Endeavor Air	113	0.86
ExpressJet Airlines	319	0.96
Hawaiian Airlines	105	1.06
Virgin America	81	1.28
US Airways	806	1.42
American Eagle Airlines	303	1.70
American Airlines	1730	1.99
United Airlines	1935	2.14
Frontier Airlines	316	3.09