Subtracting + sets - math problems

Number of problems found: 10

  • Subtracting sets
    venn_intersect_1 For two sets K, L is true: K has 30 elements, L has 27 elements and the set L - K has 22 elements. How many elements does the set K - L have?
  • 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'
  • Buffet
    bufett In the school buffet were 30 children. 21 children bought sandwiches and 15 children bought lemonade. Four children did not buy anything. How many children bought lemonade and sandwiche?
  • Interior designer
    draperies To make draperies an interior designer needs 11 1/4 yards of material for the den and 8 1/2 yards for the living room. If material comes only in 20 yard bolts, how much will be left over after completing both sets of draperies?
  • Water colors
    temperove-farby6 Painting workshop attend 10 students. Eight students painted water colors and nine painted with tempera colors. How many students painted water colors and tempera at the same time?
  • Square and circles
    squares_cut_circles The square in the picture has a side length of a = 20 cm. Circular arcs have centers at the vertices of the square. Calculate the areas of the colored unit. Express area using side a.
  • 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?
  • Toy store
    panenka 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?
  • Cutting the prism
    cube333 A prism with a square base with a content of 1 cm2 and a height of 3 cm was cut from a cube with an edge length of 3 cm. What is the surface of the body formed from the cube after cutting the prism?
  • The Hotel
    hotel-montfort-tatry-2_2 The Holiday Hotel has the same number of rooms on each floor. Rooms are numbered with natural numerals 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

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