Miscellaneous Exercise

In a survey it was found that 21 people liked product A, 26 liked product B and 29 liked product C. If 14 people liked products A and B, 12 people liked products C and A, 14 people liked products B and C and 8 liked all the three products. Find how many liked product C only.

Solution: Let's say A, B and C are the set of people who like product A, product B and product C respectively. So now, as per the question, n (A) = 21 be Number of students who like product A, n (B)...

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In a survey of 60 people, it was found that 25 people read newspaper H, 26 read newspaper T, 26 read newspaper I, 9 read both H and I, 11 read both H and T, 8 read both T and I, 3 read all three newspapers. Find: (i) The number of people who read at least one of the newspapers. (ii) The number of people who read exactly one newspaper.

Solution: (i) Let's suppose that, The set of people who read newspaper H = A The set of people who read newspaper T = B The set of people who read newspaper I = C As per the question, $n (A) = 25$ =...

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