SOLUTION: A survey of 100 photographers found: 60 take black and white photographs, 75 take color photographs and 45 take both types of photographs. a. How many take color, but not black

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Question 1141272: A survey of 100 photographers found: 60 take black and white photographs, 75 take color photographs and 45 take both types of photographs.
a. How many take color, but not black and white photographs?
use a venn diagram as part of your answer

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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60 take black and white photographs,
The red circle contains the 60 photographers that take black and white
photographs.  They are split between the regions a and b, and we don't yet
know how many of the 60 go in region a and how many go in region b.
75 take color photographs
The blue circle contains the 75 photographers that take color photographers.
They are split between the regions b and c, and we don't yet know how many
of the 75 go in region b and how many go in region c.

The three regions a,b and c contain:
1. The photographers in region a take ONLY black and white photographs. 
2. The photographers in region b take BOTH black and white photographs and
   color photographs.
3. The photographers in region c take ONLY color photographs.
and 45 take both types of photographs
Now we have something definite. We know that region b contains 45
photographers.  So we write 45 in region b, the middle region, the
overlapping part of the two circles:



Now since we know that the red circle contains 60 photographers and that
the overlapping part contains 45, we know that region a contains the other
60-45 or 15 photographers.  So we put 15 in the leftmost region, region a:



Now we see that the red circle contains a total of 60 photographers. Since
we know that the blue circle contains 75 photographers and that the
overlapping part b contains 45, we know that region a contains the other 
75-45 or 30 photographers.  So we put 30 in the rightmost region, region c:



Now you see that the blue circle contains a total of 75 photographers.  The
question is:
How many take color, but not black and white photographs?
Answer: 30

Edwin