Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781305115347
Author: Roxy Peck; Chris Olsen; Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Chapter 1.4, Problem 20E
Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficcmojo.com) tracks movie ticket sales. Ticket sales (in millions of dollars) for each of the top 20 movies in 2007 and 2008 are shown in the accompanying table.
- a. Construct a dotplot of the 2008 ticket sales data. Comment on any interesting features of the dotplot. (Hint: See “What to Look For” in the Dotplots box on page 14.)
- b. Construct a dotplot of the 2007 ticket sales data. Comment on any interesting features of the dotplot.
- c. In what ways are the distributions of the 2007 and 2008 ticket sales observations similar? In what ways are they different?
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