SOLUTION: Of the 30 students in my class, 11 practice taekwondo, 11 play piano, and 20 take lessons at AoPS. 4 students play piano and go to AoPS, 3 students do taekwondo and play piano, 5 s

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Question 1180837: Of the 30 students in my class, 11 practice taekwondo, 11 play piano, and 20 take lessons at AoPS. 4 students play piano and go to AoPS, 3 students do taekwondo and play piano, 5 student go to AoPS and practice taekwondo, and 3 students do none of these. How many students do all 3?
Answer by ikleyn(52878)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Of the 30 students in my class, 11 practice taekwondo, 11 play piano, and 20 take lessons at AoPS.
4 students play piano and go to AoPS, 3 students do taekwondo and play piano, 5 student go to AoPS and practice taekwondo,
and 3 students do none of these. How many students do all 3?
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    In this problem, you are given the number of elements of the entire "universal" set (class);
    the number of elements in its three subsets (11, 11 and 20);
    the number of elements in in-pairs intersections of these three subsets (4, 3 and 5),
    the number of elements in the UNION of the three subsets (27 = 30-3).


They want you find the number of elements  " x "  in the triple intersection of subsets.


Apply the inclusion-exclusion principle


    27 = 11 + 11 + 20 - 4 - 3 - 5 + x    (alternate sum)

or

    27 = 30 + x


This equation has no solution in integer non-negative numbers.


        THEREFORE, the posed problem HAS NO SOLUTIONS.

        It describes a situation, which NEVER MAY HAPPEN.

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On Inclusion-Exclusion principle, read this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%E2%80%93exclusion_principle


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Had your problem be posed correctly,  I would be happy to solve it and to teach you.

Moreover,  had it be posed correctly,  I would add the list of relevant lessons
and similar solved problems from the archive of this forum as a bonus for you.


But at the given badly circumstances,  I will not do it . . .



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