A box office analyst seeks to predict opening weekend box office gross for movies. Toward this goal, the analyst plans to use YouTube trailer views as a predictor. For each of 66 movies, the YouTube trailer view count, the number of YouTube trailer views from the release of the trailer through the Saturday before a movie opens, and the opening weekend box office gross (in $millions) are collected and stored in Movie.

Source: Data extracted from “Box Office Report,” available at bit.ly/2srM34F. For these data,

a. Construct a scatter plot.

b. Assuming a linear relationship, use the least-squares method to determine the regression coefficients b₀ and b₁.

c. Interpret the meaning of the slope, b₁, in this problem.

d. Predict the mean weekend box office gross for a movie that had 20 million YouTube trailer views.

e. What conclusions can you reach about predicting weekend box office gross from YouTube trailer views?