document.write( "Question 705268: Using venn diagram solve the following question: a group of market women sell at least one of them yam,plantain and maize 12 of them sell plantain and 5 of them sell maize,10 sell yam and 14 sell plantain and maize ,4 sell yam and maize,2 sell yam and plantain only while 3 sell all the three items.how many women are in the group? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "You've made a mistake in copying this problem because\r\n" );
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document.write( "A:   14 sell plantain and maize\r\n" );
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document.write( "contradicts these statements:\r\n" );
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document.write( "B:  12 of them sell plantain \r\n" );
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document.write( "C:  5 of them sell maize,\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since 14 sell both plantain and maize, as A states, then \r\n" );
document.write( "certainly there are at least 14 that sell plantain, not \r\n" );
document.write( "merely 12 as B states.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Also since 14 sell both plantain and maize, as A states, then \r\n" );
document.write( "certainly there are at least 14 that sell maize, not \r\n" );
document.write( "merely 5 as C states.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The 14 has to be incorrect.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Please correct the numbers in the thank-you note and I'll\r\n" );
document.write( "help you. Maybe the 14 should have been 4. That's a guess\r\n" );
document.write( "at what your error might have been.\r\n" );
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