A motion picture industry analyst is studying movies based on epic novels. The following data were obtained for 10 Hollywood movies made in the past five years. Each movie was based on an epic novel. For these data, x1 = first-year box office receipts of the movie, x2 = total production costs of the movie, x3 = total promotional costs of the movie, and x4 = total book sales prior to movie release. All units are in millions of dollars. x1 x2 x3 x4 85.1 8.5 5.1 4.7 106.3 12.9 5.8 8.8 50.2 5.2 2.1 15.1 130.6 10.7 8.4 12.2 54.8 3.1 2.9 10.6 30.3 3.5 1.2 3.5 79.4 9.2 3.7 9.7 91.0 9.0 7.6 5.9 135.4 15.1 7.7 20.8 89.3 10.2 4.5 7.9 (a) Generate summary statistics, including the mean and standard deviation of each variable. Compute the coefficient of variation for each variable. (Use 2 decimal places.) x s CV x1 % x2 % x3 % x4 %

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018
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A motion picture industry analyst is studying movies based on epic novels. The following data were obtained for 10 Hollywood movies made in the past five years. Each movie was based on an epic novel. For these data, x1 = first-year box office receipts of the movie, x2 = total production costs of the movie, x3 = total promotional costs of the movie, and x4 = total book sales prior to movie release. All units are in millions of dollars.

x1 x2 x3 x4
85.1 8.5 5.1 4.7
106.3 12.9 5.8 8.8
50.2 5.2 2.1 15.1
130.6 10.7 8.4 12.2
54.8 3.1 2.9 10.6
30.3 3.5 1.2 3.5
79.4 9.2 3.7 9.7
91.0 9.0 7.6 5.9
135.4 15.1 7.7 20.8
89.3 10.2 4.5 7.9

 

(a) Generate summary statistics, including the mean and standard deviation of each variable. Compute the coefficient of variation for each variable. (Use 2 decimal places.)
  x s CV
x1      %
x2      %
x3      %
x4      %
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