Sets - math word problems
Number of problems found: 69
- Butterflies and bees
There were 35 flowers in the garden. The butterflies were on 17 flowers. There were butterflies and bees on 8 flowers. Can you find out on how many flowers were only bees? Note. there was a maximum of one butterfly and a maximum of one bee on each flower. - 80 students
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? - Left handed
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? - Toy store
In the toy department of store was exposed 28 dolls. 19 dolls were blondes or could speak. 12 dolls were blondes, 14 could speak. How many blondes could speak in the toy department? How many blondes could not speak? - Two sets
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? - Skoda cars
There were 16 passenger cars in the parking. It was the 10 blue and 10 Skoda cars. How many are blue Skoda cars in the parking? - Subsets
How many 19 element's subsets can be made from the 26 element set? - Domains of functions
F(x)=x2-7x and g(x)=5-x2 Domain of (fg)(x) is. .. . . Domain of (f/g)(x). .. - Intersect and conjuction
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' - Probability of intersection
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? - The university
At a certain university, 25% of students are in the business faculty. Of the students in the business faculty, 66% are males. However, only 52% of all students at the university are male. a. What is the probability that a student selected at random in the - The Hotel
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 - Pupils
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? - Triangles
Ivo wants to draw all the triangles whose two sides of which have a length of 4 cm and 9 cm and the length of the third side is expressed in whole centimeters. How many triangles does he have? - Waste paper
Our school attend 1,300 pupils. Each pupil collected plastic bottles or paper. Plastic bottles have collected 930 pupils and 600 pupils old paper. How many students have collected together plastic bottles and waste paper? - Three excursions
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 - Brothers and sisters
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? - Double probability
The probability of success of the planned action is 60%. What is the probability that success will be achieved at least once if this action is repeated twice? - Ten boys
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? - Median
The number of missed hours was recorded in 11 pupils: 5,12,6,8,10,7,5,110,2,5,6. Determine the median.
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