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# A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a hous

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A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a hous [#permalink]  19 Sep 2011, 09:00
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A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a housing colony of 144 residents could swim, dance and drive a car. It was found that the number of people who could not swim was 89, the number of people who could not dance was 100 and that the number of people who could not drive a car was 91. If the number of people who could do at least two of these things, was found to be 37 and the number of people who could do all these things was found to be 6, how many people could not do any of these things?

A) 17
B) 23
C) 29
D) 35
E) 50
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  19 Sep 2011, 09:21
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people who could swim =55

People who clould dance =44

people who could drive = 53

total number of driving,swiming and dancing events = 55 +44 +53= 152

6 people have been triple counted for their expertise, same people extra counted 12 times.

(37 - 6) = 31 people have been double counted for their expertise.

total number of different people who could do these different activities = 152 -(12 +31) =109

so people who could do nothing 144 -109 = 35

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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  20 Sep 2011, 00:17
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people who could swim =55

People who clould dance =44

people who could drive = 53

total number of driving,swiming and dancing events = 55 +44 +53= 152

6 people have been triple counted for their expertise, same people extra counted 12 times.

(37 - 6) = 31 people have been double counted for their expertise.

total number of different people who could do these different activities = 152 -(12 +31) =109

so people who could do nothing 144 -109 = 35

please could you elaborate as to how did you get the individual nos
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  20 Sep 2011, 01:25
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How can we do this Q using the formula....

T=n(A)+n(B)+n(C)-n(Exactly two of the events)-2*n(All 3 Events)+n(None of the events)

T=144
n(A)=T-n(A')=144-89=55
n(B)=T-n(B')=144-100=44
n(C)=T-n(C')=144-91=53
n(Exactly two of the events)=n(At least 2 Events)-n(All 3 Events)=37-6=31
n(All 3 Events)=6

144=55+44+53-31-2*6+n(None of the events)
n(None of the events)=144-55-44-53+31+12=35

Ans: "D"
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  23 Sep 2011, 20:22
I used to take more time to solve this type of question. Fluke's method is awesome and will help to reduce the time to solve.
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  24 Sep 2011, 00:27
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I used to take more time to solve this type of question. Fluke's method is awesome and will help to reduce the time to solve.
Thanks Fluke!!!!!!!!

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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  25 Sep 2011, 12:45
#not swim = 89 => #swim = 144-89 = 55
#not dance = 100 => #dance = 144 - 100 = 44
#not drive = 91 => #drive = 144 - 91 = 53

at least two = sum of two's + sum of three's = 37
sum of three's = 6
=> sum of two's = 31

total = S + D + Dr - (sum of two's ) - 2*(sum of three's) + none

144 = 55 + 44 + 53 -31 - 2*6 + none

=> none = 35

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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  22 Oct 2011, 10:50
+1 for D.

Use 3 set formula:

Total = Group1 + Group2 + Group3 - (sum of 2-group overlaps) - 2*(all three) + Neither

Found individual numbers as explained in the earlier posts.
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  09 Nov 2011, 08:42
Hey liftoff,

I used to be confused with such kind of problems and what helped me is drawing Venn. If you follow this there is no need to remember any formula. One just need ot remember simple +/- and also take less than 2 min.

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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  03 Jan 2013, 06:21
A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a housing colony of 144 residents could swim, dance and drive a car. It was found that the number of people who could not swim was 89, the number of people who could not dance was 100 and that the number of people who could not drive a car was 91. If the number of people who could do at least two of these things, was found to be 37 and the number of people who could do all these things was found to be 6, how many people could not do any of these things?

A) 17

B) 23

C) 29

D) 35

E) 50

I am not sure that stated official answer is correct one. or I am tricked by the language (which generally is the case in these kind of question). IMHO, the number of people who could do at least two of the things also includes 18 ( 3 *6 where 6 are the number of people who could all these things). My answer is coming as option B - 23. Can anybody help.
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  03 Jan 2013, 09:41
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A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a housing colony of 144 residents could swim, dance and drive a car. It was found that the number of people who could not swim was 89, the number of people who could not dance was 100 and that the number of people who could not drive a car was 91. If the number of people who could do at least two of these things, was found to be 37 and the number of people who could do all these things was found to be 6, how many people could not do any of these things?

A) 17

B) 23

C) 29

D) 35

E) 50

I am not sure that stated official answer is correct one. or I am tricked by the language (which generally is the case in these kind of question). IMHO, the number of people who could do at least two of the things also includes 18 ( 3 *6 where 6 are the number of people who could all these things). My answer is coming as option B - 23. Can anybody help.

The number of people who can do at least two things includes 6 (number of people who can do all three), not 6*3.

Understand here that 37 is the number of people, not the number of instances. Hence 6 is not counted 3 times in 37. Out of 37 people, 18 people cannot do all three. Only 6 can do all three. So 31 can do exactly 2 things.

I have discussed this concept in my blog post given below:
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/09 ... ping-sets/

Question 1 on the diagram is this.
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  11 Nov 2013, 18:05
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gsd85 wrote:
How can we do this Q using the formula....

T=n(A)+n(B)+n(C)-n(Exactly two of the events)-2*n(All 3 Events)+n(None of the events)

T=144
n(A)=T-n(A')=144-89=55
n(B)=T-n(B')=144-100=44
n(C)=T-n(C')=144-91=53
n(Exactly two of the events)=n(At least 2 Events)-n(All 3 Events)=37-6=31
n(All 3 Events)=6

144=55+44+53-31-2*6+n(None of the events)
n(None of the events)=144-55-44-53+31+12=35

Ans: "D"

But the stem says "at least 2", not exactly. so it should be the formula as follows:

T=n(A)+n(B)+n(C)-n(at least two of the events)+n(All 3 Events)+n(None of the events)

so 144=55+44+53-37+6+X

144=152-37+6+X
144=121+X
X=23

OA is incorrect,
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  11 Nov 2013, 18:06
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saxenaashi wrote:
A survey was conducted to find out how many people in a housing colony of 144 residents could swim, dance and drive a car. It was found that the number of people who could not swim was 89, the number of people who could not dance was 100 and that the number of people who could not drive a car was 91. If the number of people who could do at least two of these things, was found to be 37 and the number of people who could do all these things was found to be 6, how many people could not do any of these things?

A) 17

B) 23

C) 29

D) 35

E) 50

I am not sure that stated official answer is correct one. or I am tricked by the language (which generally is the case in these kind of question). IMHO, the number of people who could do at least two of the things also includes 18 ( 3 *6 where 6 are the number of people who could all these things). My answer is coming as option B - 23. Can anybody help.

The number of people who can do at least two things includes 6 (number of people who can do all three), not 6*3.

Understand here that 37 is the number of people, not the number of instances. Hence 6 is not counted 3 times in 37. Out of 37 people, 18 people cannot do all three. Only 6 can do all three. So 31 can do exactly 2 things.

I have discussed this concept in my blog post given below:
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/09 ... ping-sets/

Question 1 on the diagram is this.

How do you know that's true though; to me the question read like every other overlapping data set question. It didn't specify 'exactly' two, and seemed to be worded as other questions which mention people being in at least two sets...
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Re: Venn Time [#permalink]  11 Nov 2013, 20:55
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VeritasPrepKarishma wrote:
Understand here that 37 is the number of people, not the number of instances. Hence 6 is not counted 3 times in 37. Out of 37 people, 18 people cannot do all three. Only 6 can do all three. So 31 can do exactly 2 things.

I have discussed this concept in my blog post given below:
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/09 ... ping-sets/

Question 1 on the diagram is this.

How do you know that's true though; to me the question read like every other overlapping data set question. It didn't specify 'exactly' two, and seemed to be worded as other questions which mention people being in at least two sets...

The statement given in the question is this:
"If the number of people who could do at least two of these things, was found to be 37 and the number of people who could do all these things was found to be 6"

Say, I have 37 people in front of me and I say that these are the people who can do at least two of the three things - say these people are P1, P2, ...P37.
I also know that exactly 6 people can do all three things. These 6 are P1, P4, P8, P9, P10, P12
Tell me, how many people can do exactly 2 of the three things? 31 or 19? The answer here is 31.

Note that this situation is different from the usual: 10 people can swim and dance, 20 people can dance and drive and 7 people can swim and drive. In this case, each of the 10, 20 and 7 includes the people who can do all 3 things and hence 10 + 20 + 7 - 6*3 = 19 people can do exactly two things.
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