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Colleen's movie collection contains 8 movies, including 4 romance movies. What is the probability that a randomly selected movie will be a romance movie?

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Answer:

1/2

Explanation:

User Wildcat
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Answer: 1/2

Explanation:

There are 8 movies in total.

4 of those movies are romance movies.

The probability of picking a romance movie is the proportion of romance movies to the total number of movies.

= Number of romance movies / Number of total movies

= 4 / 8

= 1 / 2

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