Word Problems on Sets

Inclusion-Exclusion Principle
Suppose there are 25 students enrolled in Math 1, 28 students enrolled in PE
and 20 students are Athletes.
Assumptions:
No athlete enrolled in Math 1
10 athletes enrolled in PE.
15 students are enrolled both in Math 1 and in PE.
* Draw a diagram representing the all the assumptions above.
a. How many students are either enrolled in Math 1 or in PE?
b. How many students are either enrolled in Math 1 or are athletes?
c. How many athletes did not enroll in PE?
d. How many students enrolled in PE but are not athletes?
Exercises:
1. In a survey of 50 students, there were 25 students enrolled in Math 1
(M), 20 students enrolled in English 1 (E) and 18 students were
scholars (S).
Assumptions:
5 scholars enrolled both in Math 1 and in English 1
9 scholars enrolled in Math 1
8 students enrolled both in Math 1 and in English 1
10 scholars enrolled in English 1
a. Draw a diagram representing all the assumptions above.
b. How many non-scholar students enrolled both in Math 1 and English
1?
c. How many students enrolled only in Math 1?
d. How many students enrolled in at least one of the two subjects?
e. How many students were not either scholars, not enrolled in Math 1
or were not enrolled in English 1?
2. Suppose there were 136 professionals who attended a conference.
Forty-five of them were doctors (D), fifty-five were lawyers (L) and
seventy-three were teachers (T).
The ff are the other assumptions:
12 attendees were lawyers, doctors and teachers
15 attendees were both lawyers and doctors
32 attendees were both doctors and teachers
37 attendees were both lawyers and teachers

a. Draw a diagram representing the assumptions above.

b. How many attendees were either a teacher, a lawyer or a
doctor?
c. How many were not either in any of the three professions?
d. How many attendees have exactly one of the three professions?
e. How many lawyers were not either doctors or teachers?
3. In the year 2012, Executive magazine surveyed the presidents of the
500 largest corporations in the United States. Of these 500 people, 310
had degrees (of any sort) in business, 238 had undergraduate degrees
in business (S) and 184 had graduate degrees in business (G).
a. Draw a Venn diagram displaying all the given data above and
determine the number of elements in each basic region.
b. Using the set-theoretic notation, describe the following:
- set of presidents with at least one degree in business
- set of presidents with both undergraduate and graduate degrees in
business
c. How many presidents had both undergraduate and graduate
degrees in business?
d. Determine the number of presidents having exactly one degree
(graduate or undergraduate) in business.