SOLUTION: Let A and B be subsets of U with n(A)=12, n(B)=25, n(A')=67, and n(A intersect B)= 11 Find n(A U B'). I have created the Venn diagram and with two circles, where A is 12, B is

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Question 450991: Let A and B be subsets of U with n(A)=12, n(B)=25, n(A')=67, and n(A intersect B)= 11 Find n(A U B').
I have created the Venn diagram and with two circles, where A is 12, B is 25 and the intersection of A and B is 11, but i'm not sure where to go from there. A' is given as 67, but I don't see how that provides me what I need to solve.
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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since and , this means that


So


which means that


So there are 79 elements in the universe U. This is a very important piece of information.


Now comes the task of creating the Venn diagram. This isn't required, but it really helps to see what's going on.


So start with drawing a rectangle. Now draw two overlapping circles within this rectangle. Label the circles as A and B and label the rectangle as U like so:




Now because , this means that the number 11 goes in the region between the two circles (since this is where the two "intersect"). So fill in this region:



Now, we know that n(A) = 12 and we know that . We want to know how many is in A alone and not in B. So just subtract off 11 from 12 to get 12-11 = 1. So there is 1 element in set A. So fill in the circle A with "1" like so:




Do the same for set B to get 25 - 11 = 14. So there are 14 elements that are only in B (and not in A). Fill this in to get





Now add up the numbers in the separate regions to get: 1+11+14 = 26


So there are 26 elements that belong in either set A, set B, or both. Since there are 79 elements total, this must mean that there are 79 - 26 = 53 elements that are in neither set. This number gets written outside the circles but inside the rectangle like so:




Now our Venn diagram is done. Our task is to now appropriately shade the region that pertains to .


We do this by first shading all of set A (the first set listed) like so



then we shade , which is everything but B, to get



Combine these shadings to get the final product of




What we get is that practically everything is shaded except the region that has a 14 in it. Now just add up the numbers that lie in the shaded regions to get: 1+11+53 = 65


So there are 65 things in the set


So