SOLUTION: A survey on a reading interest among the students of a secondary school towards comics and novels are conducted. The survey results showed that 29% of the students like to read com

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Question 1151130: A survey on a reading interest among the students of a secondary school towards comics and novels are conducted. The survey results showed that 29% of the students like to read comics including 17% enjoy reading novels. The results also showed that 3%of the students do not like to read both comics and novels. A student was selected at random from the students in the school. Events A, B and C are defined as follows:
A: the selected students likes to read comics.
B: the selected students likes to read novels.
C: the selected students likes to read comics or novels but not both comics and novels.
Find
i) P(A'∩ B)
ii) P(B)
iii) P(C)
iv) P(A|B')
v) P(A'∪ B')

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Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Something's wrong.
29% of the students like to read comics including 17% enjoy reading novels.
 
So the 29% includes the 17% that enjoy reading novels. That means the rest
of the 29%, which is 12%, enjoy reading comics but not novels.  That means
that these 12% do not like to read both comics and novels, for they only
like to read comics, not novels. 

But then the next sentence says:
3% of the students do not like to read both comics and novels.
But we have already accounted for 12% who do not like to read both comics and
novels.

Correct the problem and repost it.  Copy it precisely exactly as it is written.

Edwin