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Movie companies need to predict the gross receipts of an individual movie once the movie h...

Movie companies need to predict the gross receipts of an individual movie once the movie has debuted. The following results (stored in PotterMovies) are the first weekend gross, the U.S. gross, and the worldwide gross (in $millions) of the six Harry Potter movies that debuted from 2001 to 2009:

Title

First Weekend

U.S. Gross

Worldwide Gross

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

Source: Data extracted from www.the-numbers.com/interactive/comp-Harry-Potter.php.

a. Compute the coefficient of correlation between first weekend gross and the U.S. gross, first weekend gross and the worldwide gross, and the U.S. gross and worldwide gross.


b. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there a significant linear relationship between first weekend gross and the U.S. gross, first weekend gross and the worldwide gross, and the U.S. gross and worldwide gross?

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