Intersection of sets - math word problems

  1. Christmas or Easter
    stromcek Please calculate this example by the Venn equation. They asked 73 students whether they like Christmas or Easter. 34 of them like one of the holidays. 39 loves Easter. There are twice as many students who wish both holidays than those who only love Ea
  2. Eq triangle minus arcs
    srafovana In an equilateral triangle with a 2cm side, the arcs of three circles are drawn from the centers at the vertices and radii 1cm. Calculate the content of the shaded part - a formation that makes up the difference between the triangle area and circular cuts
  3. Two sets
    venn_intersect Suppose Set B contains 69 elements and the total number elements in either Set A or Set B is 124. If the Sets A and B have 29 elements in common, how many elements are contained in set A?
  4. Brothers and sisters
    venn_intersect There are 35 children in the class, 23 of them have a brother, and 27 of them have a sister. How many children have both a brother and a sister when there are 5 children in the class who have no brother or sister?
  5. Ten pupils
    venn 10 pupils came to the art group .8 pupils painted with watercolors and 9 pupils painted with ink, each pupil painted with ink or watercolors. How many pupils painted water and ink at the same time?
  6. Glasses
    okuliare There are 36 pupils in the class. Nine girls wear glasses. Boys with glasses are five less than girls without glasses. Boys without glasses are two times more than girls without glasses. How many boys and how many girls?
  7. School trip
    venn_intersect On a school trip, 17 of the 28 children bought ice cream or chocolate in a candy store. Twelve children bought chocolate, and nine children bought ice cream. How many children bought ice cream and chocolate? How many children did not buy ice cream? How ma
  8. Three excursions
    venn_three Each pupil of the 9A class attended at least one of the three excursions. There could always be 15 pupils on each excursion. Seven participants of the first excursion also participated in the second, 8 participants of the first excursion, and 5 participan
  9. Eq2 2
    kardan3rd Solve following equation with quadratic members and rational function: (x2+1)/(x-4) + (x2-1)/(x+3) = 23
  10. 80 students
    venn_intersect 80 students were asked what type of test they preferred. 50 students said they liked multiple choice and 42 liked true or false. If 36 liked both multiple choice and true or false types, how many students preferred multiple choice only?
  11. Intersect and conjuction
    venn_intersect Let U={1,2,3,4,5,6} A={1,3,5} B={2,4,6} C={3,6} Find the following. 1. )AUB 2. )A'UB'
  12. Pupils
    venn_intersect There are 27 pupils in the classroom. They can swim 21 and ski nine pupils. Neither swim nor ski three pupils. How many pupils can swim and ski?
  13. Probability of intersection
    venn_three Three students have a probability of 0.7,0.5 and 0.4 to graduated from university respectively. What is the probability that at least one of them will be graduated?
  14. Small painters
    venn_intersect_1 There are ten pupils in the painting group. Eight pupils paint with watercolors and nine pupils with tempera colors. How many pupils paint both water and tempera colors when each pupil paints?
  15. Ten boys
    venn_intersect Ten boys chose to go to the supermarket. Six boys bought gum and nine boys bought a lollipop. How many boys bought gum and a lollipop?
  16. The Hotel
    hotel-montfort-tatry-2_2 The Holiday Hotel has the same number of rooms on each floor. Rooms are numbered with natural numbers sequentially from the first floor, no number is omitted, and each room has a different number. Three tourists arrived at the hotel. The first one was in r
  17. Marriage sttus
    family_26 In our city, there are 3/5 of the women married to 2/3 of the men. Find what part of the population is free.
  18. Left handed
    pens_1 It is known that 25% of the population is left-handed. What is the probability that there is a maximum of three left-handers at a seminar where there are 30 participants?
  19. Mba studium
    skola_18 At MBA school, fourth-year students can choose from three optional subjects: a) mathematical methods, b) social interaction, c) management Each student studies one of these subjects. The mathematical methods studied 28 students, the social interaction 27
  20. Utopia Island
    doktori A probability of disease A on the island of Utopia is 40%. A probability of occurrence among the men of this island, which make up 60% of all the population (the rest are women), is 50%. What is the probability of occurrence of A disease among women on Ut

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