In a survey of 240 television viewers, 3/5 indicated that they like comedies, some indicated that they do not like comedies, and the rest did not respond. If one of the 240 viewers is selected at random, the probability is 1/15 that the viewer selected did not respond. How many of the 240 viewers indicated that they do not like comedies?

liked: 3/5 * 240 = 144

no response: 1/15 * 240 = 16
So, 240-144-16 = 80 did not like comedies

Well, let's do some math, but don't worry, it won't be too dramatic!

We know that 3/5 of the 240 viewers indicated that they like comedies. So, that leaves us with 240 x (3/5) = 144 viewers who like comedies.

Now, we're told that the probability of a viewer not responding is 1/15, which means that 1 out of every 15 viewers didn't give a response.

So, if we assume that x viewers did not respond, then we can write an equation:

x/240 = 1/15

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:

15x = 240

Dividing both sides by 15, we find:

x = 16

So, 16 viewers did not respond. But hold your laughter, we're not done yet!

We were asked how many viewers indicated that they do not like comedies. Well, the viewers who like comedies and those who did not respond altogether is 144 + 16 = 160.

That means that the viewers who do not like comedies are the ones left over from the total, which is 240 - 160 = 80.

So, 80 viewers indicated that they do not like comedies.

I hope that didn't make you clown-fused!

Let's break down the information given:

There are 240 television viewers surveyed.
Of these viewers, 3/5 indicated that they like comedies.
The remaining viewers did not respond.

We can calculate the number of viewers who indicated that they like comedies as follows:

3/5 * 240 = 144

Given that the probability of selecting a viewer who did not respond is 1/15, we can calculate the total number of viewers who did not respond using the probability formula:

1/15 * 240 = 16

Since the remaining viewers who did not respond are not mentioned, we subtract the number of viewers who indicated that they like comedies (144) and those who did not respond (16) from the total number of viewers surveyed (240) to find the number of viewers who indicated that they do not like comedies:

240 - 144 - 16 = 80

Therefore, there are 80 viewers who indicated that they do not like comedies out of the 240 viewers surveyed.

To answer this question, we need to find out how many viewers did not respond and then calculate the number of viewers who do not like comedies based on the information given.

We know that the probability of a viewer selected at random not responding is 1/15. Since there are 240 viewers in total, we can set up the equation:

1/15 = x/240

To solve for x, we cross-multiply:

1 * 240 = 15 * x

240 = 15x

Next, we can solve for x by dividing both sides of the equation by 15:

x = 240/15

x = 16

Therefore, there are 16 viewers who did not respond.

Now, let's find the number of viewers who indicated that they do not like comedies.

We are given that 3/5 of the viewers like comedies, which means 2/5 of the viewers do not like comedies.

Therefore, the number of viewers who indicated that they do not like comedies is:

(2/5) * 240 = 96

So, there are 96 viewers who indicated that they do not like comedies.