To answer the following questions, my assigned textbook provides a chart of the required information which displays 5 individual sections of the amounts of the different types of DVD rentals. Comedy is 320 rental; action is 200 rentals; drama is 160 rentals; musical is 96 rentals; and the category of other is 24 rentals.

Question

1). What percent of the movies rented were comedies?

2). What type of movie made up 25% of the rentals?

3). What percent of the movies rented were in the "other" category?

Answer 1

800 rentals

1) 100(320/800) = _____%

2) 0.25 * 800 = _______

3) 100(24/800) = _______%

Answer 2

1). 4o%

2). Action

3). 3%

Answer 3

*40%

Answer 4

Right.