Question

Use the relative row frequencies in the table below to answer the question. Movie Preference Action Drama Science- Fiction Comedy

Female 0.25 0.325 0.033 0.392
Male 0.625 0.0125 0.2 0.1625 A randomly selected participant is female. Would you predict that her favorite type of movie was action? If not, what would you predict and why?

Answer 1

No, I would not predict her favorite category is action.

If you look at the percents for the female categories, action is not the highest. The highest category is Comedy. If you have to make a prediction, it would be best to go with Comedy because it is the highest.

Answer 2

No. Comedy is the women's best genre followed closely by Drama.

Explanation:

When it comes to relative frequencies, we have to consider that relative to the absolute quantity, in other words in percent (%) of the total.

If a randomly selected female participant is chosen, according to our data, action movie is the one prefered by only 0.25 i.e. (25%) or 1 out of 4 women would pick action movie, as their favorite genre.

Looking at the graph 39.2% of the women chose Comedy as their favorite, followed by Drama with 32.5% of the female respondents.