1. Out of 80 students, 28 are taking MATH and 58 are taking ENGINEERING.

If 10 students are in both

classes.

• How many students are taking MATH only?

• How many students are taking ENGINEERING only?

• How many students are in neither class?

• How many students are in either class?

I. First, draw a universal for the 80 students

MATH:28 ENGINEERING:58
with two overlapping circles labeled with the

total in each
18 10 48

II. Since 10 students are taking both classes, put

"10" in the overlap:
4

III. We have now accounted for the 10 of the 28

MATH students, leaving 18 students taking MATH
but not ENGINEERING, so we put '18" in the "MATH
only" part of the circle:

IV. We have also accounted for 10 of the 58

ENGINEERING students, leaving 48 students taking
ENGINEERING but not MATH, so we put "48" in the
"ENGINEERING only" part of the circle:

V. This tells us that a total of 18 + 10 + 48 = 76

students are in either MATH or ENGINEERING (or
both). This leaves 4 students unaccounted for, so
they must be the ones taking neither class.

2. In a class of 15 boys, there are 10 who play soccer and 8 who play billiard.
a. How many play both of the games?

b. How many play soccer only?

c. How many play billiard only?

• Since the total number of boys in both who play SOCCER

and BILLIARD was 18. Let's difference 18 to 15 which we
SOCCER BILLIARD get "3". Then both of the number in the circle will be
10-3 8-3 deducted by 3.
3
=7 =5 • Put "3" in the overlapping that represents who play both
games.

Total number of boys = 15

3. A class of 30 students were surveyed and asked if they ever had dogs or cats for pets at home.

• 8 students said they had only ever had a dog.

• 6 students said they had only ever had a cat.

• 10 students said they had a dog and a cat.

• 6 students said they had never had a dog or a cat.

• All we need to do is place the numbers from the word problem onto the standard Venn Diagram and
we are done.

DOG CAT

8 10 6

6
 4. 90 students were asked which sports
they play.
• 60 play basketball in total.
• 48 play football in total.
• 45 play tennis in total.
• 30 play basketball and tennis.
• 33 play basketball and football
• 27 play football and tennis.
• 21 play all there.
I. The number 21 is placed in the
overlap of all 3 circles.
II. There are 20 students that play both
basketball and tennis. The overlapping
region of these two circle is shown in
the diagram. We already have 21
students that play all there sports in
this region so, a further 9 students
must play both basketball and tennis.
III. There are 33 students in total that
play basketball and football. There are
already 21 students who play all three
sports and so, further 12 students
must play both basketball and footbal
but not tennis in order to make the
total in this region add up to 33
students.
surveyed what fruit they like.
•72 likes banana
T
9 G
9 6
21
18
12
B F
IV. There are 27 students total that
play football and tennis, there are
already 21 students who play all three
sports and so, a further 6 students
must play both football and tennis but
not basketball in order to make the
total in this region add up to 27
students.
V. We already have 9,21,12 students
in the overlapping regions. This is a
total of 42 students so far. We need
a further 18 who only play basketball
in order to make a total number of 60.
OTHER FRUIT:10
8
9
VI. There are already 12,21,6 students
in the overlapping regions in football.
This makes a total of 39 students so
far. 9 more students are required to
make the circle total up to 48. 9
student play only football and not
basketball and tennis.
5.
VII.110 people
Finally, wereare 45 student who
there
play tennis shown in the circle. There
are already in my as 9, 21, 6 in the
overlapping regions making a total of
36 students, a further 9 students are
required to make a total of 45
students in this circle. 9 students play
tennis but not basketball and
football.
•60 likes apple

•50 likes grapes

•37 likes banana and grapes

•40 likes banana and apple

•35 likes apple and graped 7 5

30
•30 likes all fruits!
B A
•10 likes other fruits. 15
25
10

No I. The number 30 is placed in the V. We already have 10, 30, 7 people

overlap of all 3 circles. likes banana. We need a further 25
people who only likes banana in order
to make a total of 72.

II. There are 37 people likes banana and

grapes. We already have 30 people, a VI. There are already 7, 30, 5 people
further 7 people likes banana and likes grapes in the circle. We need a
grapes but not apple. further 8 people who only likes grapes
in order to make a total of 50.

III. There are 40 people like banana and VII. There are already 10, 30, 5 people
apple. We already have 30 people, a likes apple in the overlapping. We need
further 10 people must likes banana and 15 people who only likes apple in to
apple but not grapes. make a total of 60.

VIII. Finally 110 people were surveyed

IV. There are 35 people likes apple and but then people accounted in the three
grapes. We already have 30 people, a circles was 100 who likes banana, apple,
further 5 people must likes apple and and grapes. So it must be 10 people who
grapes like other fruits.