Question: The owner of an expensive gift shop believes that her weekly sales are related to the performance of the stock market for that week. To explore this possibility, she determines the amounts of sales and the mean of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 16 randomly selected weeks. These figures are given below, with the sales figures given in units of one thousand dollars.

DJIA 2215 2518 1781 1823 2117 2703 1423 1532 1879 1713 2122 2346 1629 2609 1515 1687

Sales 58.3 62.9 46.3 48.2 58.2 65.8 36.7 32.3 52.7 39.3 58.7 60.9 40.5 70.3 39.1 45.9

Use MINITAB to construct a scatter diagram with the DJIA on the x axis and sales as the dependent variable.