How much money do movies make on a single weekend? Does this amount in any way predict the movie's success or failure, or is the movie's total monetary success more dependent on the number of weeks that the movie remains in the movie theaters? In a recent week, the following data was collected for the top 16 movies in theaters that weekend.

a. Which pairs of variables in the table do you think will have a positive correlation? Which pairs will have a negative correlation? Explain.
b. Draw a scatterplot relating the number of weeks in release to the gross to date. How would you describe the relationship between these two variables?
c. Draw a scatterplot relating the weekend gross to the number of theaters in which the movie is being shown. How would you describe the relationship between these two variables?
d. Draw a scatterplot relating the number of theaters in which the movie is being shown to the per theater average. How would you describe the relationship between these two variables?

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Weekend Total Production Gross Theater Average Gross Budget Studio S millions Count (S millions) (S millions) Weelk TW Title 17.0 12.2 1 The Expendables LGF 2 Vampires Suck Fox 3 Eat Pray Love Sony 4 Lottery Ticket 5 The Other Guys Sony 6 Piranha 3D 7 The Switch 8 Nanny McPhee 3270 5189 3233 3774 18.6 65.4 3082 3930 47.2 WB 10.7 10.2 W/Dim 10.1 8.4 1973 5399 10.7 3472 2927 88.3 2470 4092 10.1 2012 4193 100 24 Returns 9 Inception 10 Scott Pilgrim vs. 2784 3020 2401 3265 262.0 8.4 6 7 7.8 160 the World 11 Despicable Me Uni. 12 Dinner for 5.2 2820 1845 20.9 4.7 2236 2085 231.1 Schmucks 13 Salt 14 Step Up 3-D 15 Cats & Dogs: P/DW 3.5 2149 638 65.8 Sony 3.4 1794 1901 109.9 BV 110 1979 36.9 The Revenge of Kitty Galore WB 1.7 5 1580 1077 39.7 730 2086 403.8 16 Toy Story 3 10