Do Long Trips Get Cancelled?
A product manager at UrbanHop has a theory: long trips get cancelled more often, because a driver looking at a forty-minute run to the edge of the city would rather wait for something shorter. If that is happening, it is a matching problem worth money. The first step is cheap — compare the typical distance of the bookings that completed against the ones that did not.
Every booking carries a distance, whether it happened or not, because the distance is estimated when the ride is booked. That is what makes the comparison possible at all.
rides — one row per booking. rider_id points at a row in riders and driver_id at a row in drivers. distance_km is the trip length in kilometres and fare the price in dollars; both are recorded when the booking is made, so a booking that never happened still carries them. status is either completed or cancelled. ride_date is the day the ride was booked for.
| id | rider_id | driver_id | distance_km | fare | ride_date | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 12.5 | 2023-06-01 | completed |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 2023-06-03 | completed |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 10.0 | 22.0 | 2023-06-02 | completed |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 2023-06-05 | cancelled |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | 4.4 | 11.0 | 2023-06-06 | completed |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | 7.8 | 18.0 | 2023-06-04 | completed |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 2023-06-07 | cancelled |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | 12.3 | 26.5 | 2023-06-10 | completed |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 15.0 | 2023-06-12 | completed |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | 3.3 | 9.0 | 2023-06-15 | completed |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | 8.8 | 19.5 | 2023-06-18 | completed |
| 12 | 3 | 4 | 2.9 | 7.5 | 2023-06-20 | cancelled |
The table already exists in the database — there is nothing to create or load.
Task: Write a query that returns one row per status, with status and the mean distance of the bookings carrying that status, rounded to two decimal places, as avg_km. Statuses in alphabetical order.
Example output
Shape only — the two status labels are the real ones, the figures are invented:
| status | avg_km |
|---|---|
| cancelled | 5.4 |
| completed | 9.13 |
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