The numbers of nominees for best picture at the Academy Awards and the numbers of winners are compared in the scatterplot in Fig. 16 for 17 genres. The genres were determined by the description of the movies at IMDb. If a nominated or winning movie is described as being a combination of genres, then the movie was counted for each of those genres.

a. Identify the explanatory and response variables.
b. Is the association positive, negative, or neither? What does that mean in this situation?
c. The number of nominations for the genres drama, romance, and comedy are 413, 206, and 98, respectively. Estimate the number of winners of each of the three genres.
d. Use your results in part (c) to help you find the percentage of drama nominees that became winners. Round to the first decimal place. Also find the percentages for romance and comedy nominees. Describe a pattern in your results.

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Number of Nominees versus Number of Winners 80 60 40 20 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Number of nominees