Chapter 14.6, Problem 2Q

Listed below for two consecutive fiscal years are the monthly numbers of passenger boardings at a Florida airport. Use Theorem 14.6.1 to test whether these twenty-four observations can be considered a random sequence, relative to the number of runs up and down. Let $a=\mathrm{0.05.}$

Month	Passenger Boardings	Month	Passenger Boardings
July	41.388	July	44.148
Aug.	44.880	Aug.	42.038
Sept.	33.556	Sept.	35.157
Oct.	34.805	Oct.	39.568
Nov.	33.025	Nov.	34.185
Dec.	35.873	Dec.	37.604
Jan.	31.330	Jan.	28.231
Feb.	30.954	Feb.	29.109
March	32.402	March	38.080
April	38.020	April	34.184
May	42.828	May	39.842
June	41.204	June	46.727