Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios, Inc., in a deal worth $7.4 billion

(CNN Money website, January 24, 2006). The animated movies produced by Disney and Pixar during the previous 10 years are listed in the following table. The box office revenues are in millions of dollars. Compute the total revenue, the mean, the median, and the quartiles to compare the box office success of the movies produced by both companies.

Do the statistics suggest at least one of the reasons Disney was interested in buying Pixar?

Discuss.

Revenue Revenue Disney Movies ($millions) Pixar Movies ($millions)

Pocahontas 346 Toy Story 362 Hunchback of Notre Dame 325 A Bug’s Life 363 Hercules 253 Toy Story 2 485 Mulan 304 Monsters, Inc. 525 Tarzan 448 Finding Nemo 865 Dinosaur 354 The Incredibles 631 The Emperor’s New Groove 169 Lilo & Stitch 273 Treasure Planet 110 The Jungle Book 2 136 Brother Bear 250 Home on the Range 104 Chicken Little 249