LOGICAL REASONING HANDOUT

(Venn Diagrams – I)
Ref: LRHO1001905
Venn Diagram involving two variables: Exactly two sets = d + e + f ;
A, B and C = All the three = Only A, B and C = g;
G.T = µ Exactly three sets = g ;
None among A, B and C = n ;
A B At least one set = Exactly one + Exactly two + Exactly
three = a + b + c + d + e + f + g = µ − n
At least two sets = Exactly two + Exactly three
a g b
=d+e+f+g

At least three sets = Exactly three = g

None = n At most one set = Exactly one + None = a + b + c + n
At most two sets = Exactly two + Exactly one + None
In the above diagram, A and B represent two different =d+e+f+a+b+c+n=µ−g
sets and the various regions can be referred to as given
below. At most three sets = Exactly three + Exactly two
+ Exactly one + None = g + d + e + f + a + b + c + n = µ
A=a+g;B=b+g
Only A = a; Only B = b A + B + C = a + b + c + 2(d + e + f) + 3g
Exactly one set = a + b = Exactly one + 2(Exactly two) + 3(Exactly three)
A and B = g ; Only A and B = g = (Exactly one + Exactly two + Exactly three) + Exactly
Exactly two sets = g two + 2 (Exactly three)
At least one set = Exactly one + Exactly two = At least one + Exactly two + 2(Exactly three)
=a+b+g=T = At least one + (Exactly two + Exactly three) + Exactly
Grand Total (G.T = µ) = a + b + g + n = T + n three
A + B = a + b + 2g = T + g = At least one + At least two + At least three
A or B = a + b + g = T
Does not belong to A = b + n Does not belong to A = b + e + c + n
Does not belong to B = a + n A or B or C = a + b + c + d + e + f + g = At least one.
A or B = a + b + d + e + f + g
Venn Diagram with three variables: A or B but not C = a + d + b
Neither A nor B = c + n
G.T = µ (A and B) or C = d + c + f + g + e
A and (B or C) = d + g + f
A B
Venn diagram involving four variables:
a d b
g G.T = µ
f e
A B
c
a e b

C None = n
g k h c C
Here A, B and C are three different sets and the various
regions can be referred to as given below. n o l f

A = a + d + g + f ; Only A = a i m j d D
B = b + d + g + e ; Only B = b
C = c + f + g + e ; Only C = c None = p

Exactly one set = a + b + c ;

Here, A, B, C and D are four different sets and the
A and B = d + g ; B and also C = e + g ; C as well as various regions can be referred to as given below.
A=f+g; A=a+e+g+k+n+o+i+m ; Only A = a
Only A and B = d ; A and B but not C = d ; B=b+e+h+k+l+o+j+m ; Only B = b
Only B and C = e ; B and C but not A = e ; C=c+f+h+l+k+o+g+n ; Only C = c
Only C and A = f ; C and A but not B = f ; D=d+f+j+l+m+o+i+n ; Only D = d
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Exactly one set = a + b + c + d Cricket or Football, 430 students play Football or Hockey
A and B = e + k + o + m ; Only A and B = e ; and 450 students play Hockey or Cricket. 30 students do
A and C = g + k + o + n ; Only A and C = g ; not play any of the three games.
A and D = n + o + i + m ; Only A and D = i ;
B and C = k + h + o + l ; Only B and C = h ; 8. How many students play Football and Hockey?
B and D = m + j + o + l ; Only B and D = j ; (A) 110 (B) 80 (C) 130 (D) 150
C and D = n + o + l + f ; Only C and D = f ;
9. How many students play only Football?
Exactly two sets = e + f + g + h + i + j (A) 290 (B) 140 (C) 100 (D) 120

A, B and C = k + o ; Only A, B and C = k ; 10. How many students play only Cricket and Hockey?
B, C and D = l + o ; Only B, C and D = l ; (A) 70 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40
A, B and D = m + o ; Only A, B and D = m ;
A, C and D = n + o ; Only A, C and D = n ; 11. How many students play all the three games?
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40
Exactly three sets = k + l + m + n
A, B, C and D = All the four = Exactly four sets = o; 12. How many students play only Cricket?
None among A, B, C and D = p (A) 150 (B) 140 (C) 100 (D) 120

Directions for questions 1 to 4: These questions are Directions for questions 13 to 16: These questions are
based on the information given below. based on the following data.

The class teacher has posed two questions A and B to In a colony, the residents read different news papers
the 160 students of her class. 65 students could not among The Hindu, The Times of India and Dainik
answer question A, 80 students could not answer question Bhaskar. It is known that 52% of the residents read at
B and 40 students answered both the questions. most one news paper. 42% of the residents read
The Times of India or Dainik Bhaskar but not The Hindu.
1. How many students could not answer any of the two 54% of the residents read The Times of India. 24% of
questions? the residents read both The Hindu and The Times of
(A) 30 (B) 25 (C) 40 (D) 15 India. 36% of the residents read exactly two news
papers. 10% of the residents read only The Hindu and
2. How many students answered only question A? Dainik Bhaskar. The number of residents, who read all
(A) 95 (B) 60 (C) 50 (D) 55 the three news papers is twice the number of residents
who read none of these news papers. 2,800 residents
3. How many students could not answer exactly one read only the Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar.
question?
(A) 130 (B) 55 (C) 95 (D) 115 13. How many residents read only The Hindu?
(A) 4000 (B) 3600 (C) 3200 (D) 3400
4. The number of students who answered only
question B is what percentage of the number of 14. How many residents do not read any of the news
students who answered question B? papers?
(A) 1800 (B) 1600 (C) 1450 (D) 1200
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(A) 50% (B) 60% (C) 25% (D) 33 %
3 15. How many residents read at least two news papers?
(A) 9600 (B) 8000
Directions for questions 5 to 7: These questions are (C) 8400 (D) 10200
based on the information given below.
16. How many residents are there in the colony?
Among 400 delegates who attended a conference, (A) 22000 (B) 16000
80 like both tea and coffee, whereas the number of (C) 20000 (D) 18000
delegates who like coffee is twice the number of
delegates who like only tea. The number of delegates, Directions for questions 17 to 20: These questions are
who like neither of the beverages is half the number of based on the information given below.
delegates who like only coffee.
A survey was conducted among some people. It was
5. How many delegates like tea? found that 330 people watch Discovery channel,
(A) 160 (B) 110 (C) 190 (D) 120 330 people watch Star World, 315 people watch BBC
and 285 people watch Star News. The number of people
6. How many delegates like neither of the beverages? who watch each combination of exactly three channels is
(A) 60 (B) 50 (C) 80 (D) 70 40. The number of people, who watch only Discovery
channel and BBC is 50. 80 people watch only Discovery
7. How many delegates like at most one beverage? channel, 100 people watch only Star World, 90 people
(A) 320 (B) 250 (C) 350 (D) 275 watch only BBC and 70 people watch only Star News.
30 people watch only BBC and Star News, while
Directions for questions 8 to 12: These questions are 10 people watch all the four channels. Each person
based on the information given below. watches at least one channel.

In a school of 600 students, 350 students do not play 17. How many people watch only Discovery channel
Hockey. 330 students do not play Cricket and and Star World?
310 students do not play Football. 470 students play (A) 140 (B) 50 (C) 180 (D) 230
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18. How many people watch BBC but not Discovery 20. How many people took part in the survey?
channel? (A) 1000
(A) 240 (B) 320 (C) 150 (D) 175 (B) 1260
(C) 710
19. How many people watch exactly two channels? (D) Cannot be determined
(A) 200 (B) 220 (C) 310 (D) 180

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

1. In a community, 60% of the people know Hindi, 40%
those who know Hindi, do not know English. What
percentage of the total number of people know
English, if each person of the community knows at
least one of the two languages?
(A) 80% (B) 76% (C) 40% (D) 60%
2. A survey was conducted among some children to
know their choice of Ice cream flavours among
Almond, Chocolate and Strawberry. It was found
that 770 children like at most two of the three ice
cream flavours and 40 children like none of the
flavours. 310 children like Almond, 370 like
Chocolate and 320 children like Strawberry.
760 children like at least one of the three flavours.
How many children like exactly one of the three
flavours?
(A) 570 (B) 460 (C) 340 (D) 550
3. A survey was conducted among 3500 people. It was
found that 1270 people listen to Radio city,
1340 people listen to Red FM and 1550 people listen
to Radio Mirchi. 200 People listen to Radio city and
Red FM but not Radio Mirchi. 300 people listen to
Radio city and Radio Mirchi but not Red FM.
400 people listen to Red FM and Radio Mirchi and
150 people listen to all the three Radio stations. How
many people do not listen to any of the three radio
stations?
(A) 330 (B) 250 (C) 390 (D) 310
4. From a company 350 people are to be sent to the
U.S.A., 300 people are to be sent to the UK and
310 people are to be sent to Germany for an official
purpose. 120 people are to be sent to both the
countries, U.S.A. and U.K. 110 people are to be sent
to U.S.A. and Germany. 100 are to be sent to U.K.
and Germany. If 160 people are to be sent to only
U.S.A. then which of the following is true with
respect to the number of persons to be sent
to different countries?
(A) Only U.K. < Only Germany < Only U.S.A.
(B) Only Germany < Only U.K. < Only U.S.A.
(C) Only U.K. < Only U.S.A. < Only Germany.
(D) None of the above
5. A total of 335 people attended Kalidas Samaroha
event in the three years 1997, 1998 and 1999, such
that each person attended the event at least in one
of the three years. Of the 135 people who attended
the event in 1997, 35 attended the event in the
immediate next year also. Of the 175 people who
attended the event in 1999, 130 people did not
attend the event in the previous year i.e., 1998 and
90 people did not attend the event in any year other
than 1999. 55 people, out of these 175 people,
attended the function in the year 1997 also. How
many people attended the functions in exactly two
consecutive years?
(A) 90 (B) 65 (C) 45 (D) 50

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