. A box office analyst seeks to predict opening weekend box office gross for movies. Toward this goal, the analyst plans to use online trailer views as a predictor. For each of the

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movies, the number of online trailer views from the release of the trailer through the Saturday before a movie opens and the opening weekend box office gross (in millions of dollars) are collected and stored in the accompanying table. Complete parts (a) through (e) below.

D. Predict the mean opening weekend box office gross for a movie that had 47 million online trailer views. The predicted mean opening weekend box office gross will be ________ million. enter your response here

(Round to two decimal places as needed.)

E. What insights can be obtained about predicting opening weekend box office gross from online trailer views?The slope,

b1,

of the regression equation represents the change in the mean opening weekend box office gross as the number of online trailer views changes. The variable X represents the number of online trailer views. Use this information to interpret the regression equation in the context of the exercise.

Online Trailer Views (millions)	Opening Weekend Box Office Gross ($millions)
59.914	33.831
10.381	9.049
11.164	2.198
10.953	19.98
82.367	103.836
33.314	59.553
22.759	15.494
2.868	7.765
6.832	7.442
47.976	34.375
7.907	21.142
28.367	15.74
4.074	3.067
58.791	147.444
8.19	10.165
11.275	6.497
10.666	0.615
0.08	4.559
1.179	4.867
7.146	5.367
4.971	2.388
9.143	3.608
31.408	95.598
0.052	6.779
3.94	13.614
9.837	15.532
53.464	53.063
6.057	0.234
33.006	21.293
8.312	6.685
15.607	9.477
57.858	43.19
78.003	177.314
5.389	4.822
35.458	63.146
3.2	12.795
44.238	92.026
4.989	4.69
6.63	33.377
0.942	3.705
2.258	1.513
11.327	18.47
8.966	12.202
15.177	4.357
13.714	30.436
31.231	53.003
52.612	46.607
16.235	13.003
6.884	3.776
11.698	18.223
2.827	3.471
23.075	13.602
12.606	40.011
0.826	1.385
27.536	20.13
7.273	3.404
3.323	1.207
4.267	10.951
3.79	8.344
7.597	11.614
12.912	13.501
7.067	5.106
5.02	1.985
7.739	22.8
16.795	13.689
7.643	2.08