The data from Exercise 3.26 were entered into a MINITAB worksheet, and the following output was obtained.

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Exercise 3.26
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. Use the MINITAB output or the original data to find the correlation between the number of weeks in release and the total gross to date.
b. For the pair of variables described in part a, which of the variables would you classify as the independent variable? The dependent variable?
c. Use the MINITAB output or the original data to find the correlation between the weekend gross and the number of theaters in which the movie is being shown. Find the correlation between the number of theaters in which the movie is being shown and the per theater average.

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