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The real reason? Look at them. There’s lots of places online that you can look at samples of each and every element, such as Lucite Cubes — Luciteria or A Periodic Table Of The Elements With A Small Sample Of 83 Elements Encased In Acrylic, and if you go through them one at a time, you’ll see a lot of dull grey (with the occasional shiny, or colored, like copper or gold) metallic looking things.Once you get below the first and second period, numerically speaking the transition metals begin to greatly outnumber the non-metals on the right side. You have the following metals:(images from Lucite Cubes — Luciteria)Potassium2. Calcium3. Scandium4. Titanium5. Vanadium6. Chromium7. Manganese8. Iron9. Cobalt10. Nickel11. Copper12. Zinc13. Gallium14. Germaniumand the following non metalsArsenicSeleniumBromineKrypton.So, in the third period, fourteen to four, metals outnumber nonmetals. So what do you mean by “real reason”? The real reason is that we isolated the element, looked at its properties, and lo and behold, most of them are metals.I mean, you can look at more technical explanations, such as those found at How can we identify that an element is metal or non metal by their electronic configuration, but that’s not really insightful and it’s not really accurate, since as you move down the periodic table the metal and metalloid character drifts closer and closer to the entire row. Both answers at that question are therefore wrong, at some level.It’s most likely that having a small quantity of easily ionized electrons is what makes a metal a metal. But there’s no underlying root cause, and that too is an ad-hoc explanation after the fact that we observe all of those things that have that property to have all the observational characteristics of things we call metals, that is, metallic character. It’s tautological and self evident.

I assume that, by groups, you mean “columns” of the periodic table.Groups include elements with similar outer-shell electronic configuration.Properties such as electronegativity vary gradually across periods and groups, so some groups include elements that have electronegativity values different enough to include a non-metal at the top, a metalloid near their middle, and metals near the bottom.Any classification has its limitations. The periodic table has survived because it emphasizes similarities in outer-shell electronic configuration that are useful knowledge when predicting valence and therefore the stoichiometry of compounds.

There is no widely agreed answer because there is no widely agreed definition of a metal, a metalloid, or a nonmetal.Elements commonly recognised as nonmetals are hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur, selenium, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and the six noble gases (17).The elements commonly recognised as metalloids namely boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium have predominately nonmetallic chemistries, so you could count them as nonmetals too. (6)Astatine, a halogen, has been predicted to have a metallic band structure so it can be set aside. The status of oganesson is currently not known.So, it would be fair to say there are from 17 to 23 nonmetals, depending on your definition of a nonmetal.