A survey of 100 students at New England College showed the following:
45 take English.
47 take history.
37 take language.
13 take English and history.
17 take English and language.
19 take history and language.
7 take all three.
How many students do the following? (See Example 6.)
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Let E = the set of students learning English, and let n(E)= 45 be the number of elements in this set.
Let H = the set of students learning History, and let n(H)= 47 be the number of elements in this set.
Let L = the set of students learning Language, and let n(L)= 37 be the number of elements in this set.
Let EH = the intersection of E and H, and let n(EH)= 13 be the number of elements in this set.
Let EL = the intersection of E and L, and let n(EL)= 17 be the number of elements in this set.
Let HL = the intersection of H and L, and let n(EL)= 19 be the number of elements in this set.
Let EHL = the intersection of E, H and L, and let n(EHL)= 7 be the number of elements in this set.
After introducing these notations, we are ready to solve the problem EASILY.
(a) Take history but neither of the other two?
= n(H) - n(EH) - n(HL) + n(EHL) = 47 - 13 - 19 + 7 = 22.
(b) Take English and history but not language?
= n(EH) - n(EHL) = 13 - 7 = 6.
(c) Take none of the three?
= 100 - [n(E) + n(H) + n(L) - N(EH) - n(HL) - n(EL) + n(EHL)] = calculate it on your own: simply substitute data
(What you see in BRACKETS is the number of those who takes at least one subject)
(d) Take just one of the three?
= [n(E)-n(EH)-n(EL)+n(EHL)] + [n(L)-n(EL)-n(HL)+n(EHL)] + [n(H)-n(EH)-n(HL)+n(EHL)]] = calculate it on your own: simply substitute data
(e) Take exactly two of the three?
= [n(EH) - n(EHL)] + [n(HL) - n(EHL)] + [n(EL) - n(EHL)] = calculate it on your own: simply substitute data
(f) Do not take language?
= 100 - n(L) = 100 - 37 = 63.
See the lessons
- Counting elements in sub-sets of a given finite set
- Advanced problems on counting elements in sub-sets of a given finite set
in this site.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic
"Miscellaneous word problems".