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4. In a group of 70 people, 37 like coffee, 52 like tea and cach person likes at least one of the
two drinks. How marny like both coffee and tea? [NCERT]
5. Let Aand Bbe two sets such that :n (A) =20, n(AUB) =42 and n(A o B) =4. Find
(i) n(B) (ii) n (A - B) (ii) n(B -A)
6. A survey shows that 76% of the Indians like oranges, whereas 62% like bananas. What
percentage of the Indians like both oranges and bananas?
7. In agroup of 950 persons, 750can speak Hindiand 460can speak English. Find:
(1) how many can speak both Hindi and English
(ii) how many can speak Hindi only (iii) how many can speak English only.
8. In a group of 50 persons, 14 drink tea but notcoffee and 30 drink tea. Find:
() how may drink teaand coffee both (ii) how many drink coffee but not tea.
9. In a group of 1000 people, there are 750 who can speak Hindi and 400 who can speak
Bengali. How many can speak Hindi only? How many can speak Bengali ? How many can
speak both Hindi and Bengali?
10. In a class of 60students, 25 students play cricket, 20students play tennis, and 10 students
play both the games. Find the number of students whoplay neither?
(NCERT EXEMPLAR]
11. In a survey of 400students in aschool, 100 were listed as taking apple juice, 150 as taking
orange juice and 75 were listed as taking both apple as well as orange juice. Find how many
students were taking neither apple juice nor orange juice. [NCERT]
12. In a committee, 50 people speak French, 20 speak Spanish and 10 speak both Spanish and
French. How many speak at least one of these two languages? [NCERT]
13. Ina group of 65 people, 40 like cricket, 10 like both cricket and tennis. How many like tennis
only and not cricket? How many like tennis? [NCERT]
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14. In asurvey of 60 people, it was found that 25 people read newspaper H,26 read newspaper
T, 26 read newspaper I,9 read both H and I, 11 read both H and T, 8 read both Tand I, 3
read allthree newspapers. Find:
(i) the numbers of people who read at least one of the newspapers.
(i) the number of people who read exactly one newspaper. [NCERT]
15. Of the members of three athletic teams in a certain school, 21 are in the basketball team, 26
in hockey team and 29 in the football team. 14 play hockey and basket ball, 15 play hockey
and football, 12 play football and basketball and 8 play all the three games. How many
members are there in all?
16. Asurvey of 500 television viewers produced the following information; 285 watch football,
195 watch hockey, 115 watch basketball, 45 watch football and basketball, 70 watch football
and hockey,50 watch hockey and basketball, 50 do not watch any of the three games. How
many watch all the three games? How many watch exactly one of the three games?
17. In asurvey of 100 persons it was found that 28 read magazine A, 30 read magazine B, 42
read magazine C, 8 read magazines A and B, 10 read magazines Aand C,5 read magazines
Band C and 3 read all the three magazines. Find:
Conly?
) How many read none of three magazines? (i) How many read magazine
languages were
18. In a survey of 100 students, the number of students studying the various
Sanskrit 8, English 26,
found to be :English only 18, English but not Hindi23, English and
Sanskrit 48, Sanskrit and Hindi8, no language 24. Find:
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of 200 students
study Mathematics and Physics,
30 study Physics and
20. In a survey Chemistry, 40 these subjects, Find
Physics and 70 studyChemistry and Mathematics and 20 none of
Chemistry, 50 study three subjects. INCERT EXEMPLARI
study all the Sanskrit
number of studentswho number of students studying French, English, English were
students, the so
21. In a group of 50 = 17, English = 13, Sanskrit = 15, French and
found to be as follows : French and Sanskrit =5, English, French and Sanskrit =3. Find the
English and Sanskrit =4, French
number of students who study
() French only (ii) English only (ii) Sanskrit only
Sanskrit but not French (v) French and Sanskrit but not English
(iv) English and (vii) at least one of the three languages
French and English but not Sanskrit
(vi)
(vii) None of three languages.
100 students; 15 passed in English, 12 passed in Mathematics, 8 in Science,6 in
22. Out of
English and Mathematics, 7 in Mathematics and Science; 4 in English and Science; 4 in all
the three. Find how many passed :
in Science.
(i) in English and Mathematics but not (iii) in Mathematics only.
(ii) in Mathematics but not in Science. [NCERT EXEMPLARI
(iv) in more than one subject only.
ANSWERS
(ii) 16 (iii) 22 6. 38%
1. 10 2. 30 3. 12 4. 19 5. (i) 26
7. (i) 260 (ii) 490 (iii) 200 8. (i) 16 (ii) 20 9. (i)) 600 (ii) 250 (ii) 150
12. 60 13. 25,35 14. (i) 52 (ii) 30 15. 43 16. 20,325
10. 25 11. 225
18. (1) 18 (ii) 3 19. 11 20. 20
17. () 20 (i) 30
(iii) 9 (iv) 1 (v) 2 (vi) 6 (vii) 30 (vii) 20
21. (i) 6 (i) 3
22. (i) 2 (ii) 3 (ii) 3 (iv) 9
HINTS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS

5. ) n(AUB) =nA) +n(B) n (A n B) ’ n(B) =26

(ii) n(A-B) =n(A) -n(A o B) n(A- B) =16
(üi) n(B -A) =n(B) -n(A o B) ’ 22
7. (ii) Let Aand Bdenote the sets of persons who can speak Hindi and English respectively.
Then, n(AUB) =950 , n(A) =750 and n(B) = 460.
(0) n(AnB) =nA) +n(B) n (AuB) =750 +460 950 260
(ii) Required number =n (A - B) = n(A) -n(An B)
(ii) Required number =n (B -A) =n(B) -n(AnB).
8. (ii) Let Aand Bbe sets of persons who drink tea and
coffee respectively. Then,
n(AUB) =50, n(A -B)
=14, n(A) = 30.
6) n(A- B) =14 > nA) -n (AB)
=14n(Ao B) =n(A) -14 = 30 -14 =l6
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(ii) Required number n(B - A) n(B) -n

(An B).
Now, n(AU B) =n(A) + n( B) -n(AoB) > 50 30 +n(B) -16 => n(B) =
36.
. n(B - A) =B) n (A B)=> n(B - A) = 36-16 = 20
9. Let A and B be the sets of persons who can speak
n(AUB) =1000, n(A) =750 and n( B) =400. Hindi and Bengali respectively. Then,
No. of persons whocan speak Hindi only =n(A -B) =n(A) -n
(AnB)
No. of persons who canspeak Bengali only =n (B-A) =n(B) -n
(BoA)
No. of persons who can speak bothHindi and Bengali= n (Ao B) =n(A) + ( B)
-n (AUB).
15. Let A, Band Cbe the sets of members of basketball,
Then, (A) =21, n(B) =26, n(C) 29, n(AB)hockey and football tearns respectively.
=14, n(BnC)=15, n(AnC) =12
and n(AnBAC) =8.
Required number = n(AUBUC)
=n(A) + n(B) + n(C) -n (A B)-n(BC)- AnC) +n(AnBC).
16. N = Total number of television viewers = 500, n(F) =
n(FoH) =70, n(HoB) =50, n(F' oHB') =50.
285, n(H) =195, n(FoB) =45,
Now, n(F' oHoB) =50
n[(FUHUB)'] =50
N -n(FUHUB) =50
500-n() + n(H) +n(B) n (Fo H)-n (FoB) -n(HoB)
n(FoHAB) =500- 285 -195 -115 +70 +50 +45 -50 =20.
+n(FnHOB]=50
Required number = n(FoHoB) =20
Required number =n(FoHoB) + n(F' oH B) +n(F' oHnB)]
=n(F) +n(H) + n(B) 2 {n (FnH) + n(HoB) + n(BnF) + 3 n(FoHoB)
18. We have, a =18, a +b= 23, d +e=8, a +b+ d +e=26, E H

d+e+f+g=48,
and, a+b+c+ d +e+f+g=100 - 24 =76
a = 18, b = 0,c =10, d =5, e =3, f =5 and, g= 35
(1) n(H) =b + c+e+f=18 (ii) n(HO) =b +e=3