Movie Money How much money domovies make on a single weekend? Does thisamount in any way

Chapter 3, Problem 26

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Movie Money How much money domovies make on a single weekend? Does thisamount in any way predict the movies success or failure,or is the movies total monetary success moredependent on the number of weeks that the movieremains in the movie theaters? In a recent week, thefollowing data was collected for the top 16 movies intheaters that weekend.10Weekend Total ProductionGross Theater Average Gross BudgetTW Title Studio ($ millions) Count ($) ($ millions) ($ millions) Week1 The Expendables LGF 17.0 3270 5189 65.4 80 22 Vampires Suck Fox 12.2 3233 3774 18.6 20 13 Eat Pray Love Sony 12.1 3082 3930 47.2 60 24 Lottery Ticket WB 10.7 1973 5399 10.7 17 15 The Other Guys Sony 10.2 3472 2927 88.3 100 36 Piranha 3D W/Dim. 10.1 2470 4092 10.1 24 17 The Switch Mira. 8.4 2012 4193 8.4 18 Nanny McPheeReturns Uni. 8.4 2784 3020 8.4 35 19 Inception WB 7.8 2401 3265 262.0 160 610 Scott Pilgrim vs.the World Uni. 5.2 2820 1845 20.9 60 211 Despicable Me Uni. 4.7 2236 2085 231.1 69 712 Dinner forSchmucks P/DW 3.5 2149 1638 65.8 69 413 Salt Sony 3.4 1794 1901 109.9 110 514 Step Up 3-D BV 3.2 1592 1979 36.9 30 315 Cats & Dogs:The Revengeof Kitty Galore WB 1.7 1580 1077 39.7 85 416 Toy Story 3 BV 1.5 730 2086 403.8 200 10a. Which pairs of variables in the table do you thinkwill have a positive correlation? Which pairs willhave a negative correlation? Explain. b. Draw a scatterplot relating the number of weeks inrelease to the gross to date. How would you describethe relationship between these two variables?c. Draw a scatterplot relating the weekend gross tothe number of theaters in which the movie is beingshown. How would you describe the relationshipbetween these two variables?d. Draw a scatterplot relating the number of theatersin which the movie is being shown to the per theateraverage. How would you describe the relationshipbetween these two variables?