document.write( "Question 114638: I am so confused with this problem about Venn Diagrams, please help me.
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document.write( "Of 73 men, 54 wore belts, 20 wore suspenders, & 4 wore both. \r
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document.write( "How many wore ONLY a belt? Only suspenders? Niether?\r
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document.write( "I tried adding 54, 4 and 20. I got 78 and thats over 73 men. So, i subtracted 78 and 73 and got 5. That's 5 over the number of men total and if i subtract that from both belts and suspenders i would get less people wearing them. I'm so confused, please help me with this.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #83414 by scott8148(6628)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! 54 men wore belts ___ but 4 of those also wore suspenders ___ so 50 wore ONLY belts\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "20 wore suspenders ___ 4 wore both ___ 16 ONLY suspenders\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "73 men ___ 50 only belts ___ 16 only suspenders ___ 4 both ___ so 3 neither \n" ); document.write( " |