DISCUSSION QUESTION 1 -- CHOOSING THE BEST MEASURE: Suppose you applied to be a waiter or waitress at a local restaurant and asked the manager what a...

DISCUSSION QUESTION 1 -- CHOOSING THE BEST MEASURE: Suppose you applied tobe a waiter or waitress at a local restaurant and asked the manager what atypical dinner shift was like. How might the manager describe the typicalsize of a party at a table? The mode would be useful, since there are a fewrepeated values. You might have an occasional table for 20, but, for themost part, parties consist of one to five people. What if you asked for thetypical size of a check, so you could estimate your tips? The mode makes nosense, since you would not likely have many repeats, and the mean is easilydistorted by that table for 20, but the median tells you that half the timeyou can expect to earn a certain amount of money in tips. Now suppose youwere a real estate agent and you were asked by a client about the "typical"home in a subdivision. Being the astute agent you are, you have gathered thefollowing information on each house in the subdivision: Price, squarefootage, numbers of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, and age. What statistic(mean, median, or mode) would you use to describe each aspect of the typicalhome and why? Try to imagine the type of answers you would be giving yourclient based on your selections for a subdivision that has 100 homes with awide variety of sizes and prices.