Question

APPLYING THE CONCEPTS SELF 2.46 Movie companies need to predict the gross Test receipts of individual movies once a movie has de- buted. The following results, stored in Potter Movies are the first weekend gross, the U.S. gross, and the worldwide gross (in Smillions) of the eight Harry Potter movies: U.S. First Worldwide Weekend Gross Gross Title ($millions) (Smillions) (Smillions) Sorcerer's Stone 90.295 317.558 976.458 Chamber of Secrets 88.357 261.988 878.988 Prisoner of Azkaban 93.687 249.539 795.539 Goblet of Fire 102.335 290.013 896.013 Order of the Phoenix 77.108 292.005 938.469 Half-Blood Prince 77.836 301.460 934.601 Deathly Hallows Part 1 125.017 295.001 955.417 Deathly Hallows Part II 169.189 381.011 1,328.111 Source: Data extracted from www.the-numbers.com/interactive/ comp-Harry Potter.php. a. Construct a scatter plot with first weekend gross on the X axis and U.S. gross on the Y axis. b. Construct a scatter plot with first weekend gross on the X axis and worldwide gross on the Yaxis. c. What can you say about the relationship between first weekend gross and U.S. gross and first weekend gross and worldwide gross?

Answer 1

a) b)

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