Homework #2 (Application of Sets)

Direction(s): Show your complete and neat solution for each item on sheet(s) of paper.
Box your final answer(s).

1. In a class of 50 students, 18 have an Instagram account, 26 have a Facebook

account and 2 have both Instagram and Facebook accounts. How many students
neither have Instagram nor Facebook account?

2. Among the 41 first year students, 8 joined both Math and Science clubs. If Science
club has 24 members and Math club has 25 members, how many joined Science club
but not Math club?

3. In a survey, 100 students were asked to answer the following questionnaire:

Have you joined any math
Y N
contest this year?
Have you joined any writing
Y N
contest this year?

If 68 students circled Y for math, 42 circled Y for writing, and 27 circled Y for both
subjects, how many students circled N for both questions?

4. A survey was conducted among 100 coffee drinkers regarding their preference for
cream or sugar. Among the drinkers, 16 prefer cream only, 35 prefer just sugar, and 20
prefer both. How many of them
a) like cream c) like both cream and sugar e) like cream but not sugar
b) like sugar d) like sugar but not cream

5. In a survey of 250 business executives, 20 said they do not read Money, Fortune, nor
Business Week, while 180 said they read exactly one of these three and 42 said they
read exactly two of them. How many read all three?

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6. A survey of adults 500 adults showed that 95 played tennis, 190 played golf, 200
played bowling, 100 played golf but did not play bowling or tennis, 120 played bowling
but did not played golf or tennis, 30 played golf and bowling but not tennis, and 40 did
all three. How many
a) played tennis but did not play golf or bowling?
b) played bowling but not the other two?
c) just played golf?
d) played either tennis or bowling?
e) played either golf or bowling?
f) played either tennis or golf?
g) played tennis and bowling?
h) played golf and bowling?
i) played tennis and golf?
j) played only one of them?
k) played only two events?
l) played tennis and bowling only?
m) played golf and bowling but not tennis?
n) just played tennis and golf?
o) did not play any of the three events?
p) did not play golf and bowling?
q) did not play golf and tennis?
r) did not play tennis and bowling?
s) did not play golf or bowling?
t) did not play tennis or golf?
u) did not play bowling or tennis?
v) participated in at least 1 of the three events?
w) participated in at most 3 of the three events?
x) participated in at least 2 of the three events?
y) participated in at most 2 of the three events?
z) participated in at least 3 of the three events?
 participated in at most 1 of the three events?

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