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Of the students in a school, 20 percent are in the science club and 30 percent are in the band. If 25 percent of the students in the school are in the band but are not in the science club, what percent of the students who are in the science club are not in the band?
A) 5%
B) 20%
C) 25%
D) 60%
E) 75%
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Agreed, a Venn diagram is easy; I drew one immediately.
Careful with the question's wording: "[W]hat percent of the students
who are in the
science club are
not in the
band?"
"S . . .but not B" means "S only" (they are
only in S, and not at all in B)
This percent means \(\frac{S.Only}{S.total}*100\)
Assume 100 students. Science club = S. Band = B
S
total: 20% of all students =
20B
total: 30% of all students =
30 "25 percent of the students in the school are in the band but are not in the science club"
B but not S = "B only": 25% = 25
None of those 25 students can be in the overlap,
because the overlap contains B and S.
So 25 in B only (turquoise)
Number of students in both S and B, i.e. overlap? Use B total = 30
25 of 30 are B only
The other 5 must be in the overlap (lavender). There is no other category. Thus
Overlap, the number of students who are in
both:
S and B = 5
Now fill in S only.
S only? = (S total - overlap)
S only: (20 - 5) = 15 (yellow)
"What percent of the students who are in the science club are not in the band?"
Percent of all S who are not B? (OR: Percent of all S who are S only? OR: "S Only" is what percent of "all S"?)
\(\frac{15}{20}=\frac{3}{4}=(.75*100)=75\) percent
Answer E