Hoges still twists the knife on the box office
- Copy the data set (hold the mouse
button on the link and select Save As, Text Only) and read it
into a spreadsheet.
- What interesting things can you show about the data set using
the facilities in the spreadsheet? Prepare a report on the Top
50 Movies.
- Find the arithmetic mean and the median of the data set.
Are they the same or different? Which is larger? Why is this
so?
- Do you think the amount a movie has earned could be related
to the year it was made? Why or why not? Investigate this question
using the spreadsheet package and prepare a report.
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