Explain why this is or is not a probability distribution.
x 1 2 3 4
P(x) 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2
& Movie production companies spend millions of dollars to produce movies with the great hope of attracting millions of people to the theater. The success of a movie can be measured in many ways, two of which are the box office receipts and the number of Oscar nominations received. Following is a list of ten 2005 movies and their corresponding "report cards." Each movie is measured based on its budget cost (in millions of dollars), its box office receipts (in millions of dollars), and the number of Oscar nominations it received.
a. Draw a scatter diagram using x = budget and y = box office. Attach this diagram to your post in the discussion area.
b. Does there appear to be a linear relationship?