SOLUTION: A certain college has 52 students participating in games.30 play netball, 25 play football , 10 play handball and football ,13 play netball and handball,9 play netball and football

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Question 1176008: A certain college has 52 students participating in games.30 play netball, 25 play football , 10 play handball and football ,13 play netball and handball,9 play netball and football while 2 play all the three games. How many students play handball and no other game?
Found 2 solutions by ewatrrr, ikleyn:
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi
30 - 9 -  13   =  8NB (Including the 2 all 3)
25 - 9 -  10   =  6FB (Including the 2 all 3)
32 play two 
52 - 32 - 8 - 6 = 6 HB only
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Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A certain college has 52 students participating in games.30 play netball, 25 play football ,
10 play handball and football, 13 play netball and handball, 9 play netball and football while 2 play all the three games.
How many students play handball and no other game?
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For 3 subsets N, F and H, apply the inclusive-exclusive formula


    52 = N + F + H - NF - NH - FH + NFH.


Here NF, NH and FH denote in-pair intersections and NFH is the triple intersection.


In this formula, all the terms are given in the condition, except of H.


So we substitute known values and get this equation for H


    52 = 30 + 25 + H - 10 - 13 - 9 + 2,


simplify

    52 = 25 + H

and find 

    H = 52 - 25 = 27.


So, 27 play handball.


But we need only those who play handball and no other games.


So, we subtract NH= 13 and FH= 10  from  H= 27  and add  NFH= 2


       H%5Bonly%5D = 27 - 13 - 10 + 2 =   6.    ANSWER


ANSWER.  6 students play handball only.

Solved.


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Ignore writing by @ewatrrr, since it is irrelevant.


At this forum, this woman just proved it MANY TIMES that she is incompetent in Combinatorics.