The Smith family has 80 movies in their collection. The types of movies are shown in the table below.

Question

Smith Family Movies
Type of Movie
Percentage
Drama
10%
Action
25%
Animated/Children’s
50%
Comedy
15%

How many of the movies in the collection are action movies?
8
12
20
40

Answer 1

To find out how many of the movies in the Smith family's collection are action movies, we can calculate it using the given percentage.

The Smith family has 80 movies in total, and action movies make up 25% of that collection.

To find the number of action movies, we calculate:

\[ \text{Number of Action Movies} = \text{Total Movies} \times \left(\frac{\text{Percentage of Action Movies}}{100}\right) \]

Substituting the values:

\[ \text{Number of Action Movies} = 80 \times \left(\frac{25}{100}\right) = 80 \times 0.25 = 20 \]

So, the Smith family has 20 action movies in their collection.