Question

John’s movie collection contains a total of $30$ movies including $14$ of the drama genre. How likely is a movie selected at random to not be of the drama genre?

• A. Likely
• B. Impossible
• C. Unlikely
• D. Equally likely/unlikely

Answer 1

The correct option is A Likely

John’s total number of movies in the collection is $30$.

$14$ movies are in the drama genre; hence, non-drama genre movies are $30-14=16$ movies.

Percentage of non-drama genre movies $\frac{16}{30}\times 100=16\times \mathrm{3.33...}\approx 53.33\%$

Since the percentage of non-drama genre movies is more than $50\%$, it is likely that the movie selected at random will be a non-drama genre.