Answer:
60
Step-by-step explanation:
Let us compute the number of students who responded comedy as their favorite genre and the number of students who responded with drama as favorite genre
Total number of students surveyed: 1200
20% of these students said comedy
20% of 1200 = 1200 x 20/100 = 240 students
15% of students said drama
15% of 1200 = 1200 x 15/100 = 180 students
Therefore number of students who chose comedy over drama = 240 - 180 = 60 students
Another way to do this is to take the difference between 20% and 15% and see how much that works out to in actual numbers
20% - 15% = 5% more students who chose comedy over drama
5% of 1200 = 1200 x 5/100 = 60
