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mustafa87 wrote:
­Can someone please explain how this can be performed using either the double matrix or the Venn diagram method?
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In that real sense of venn Diagram, we cannot solve it because there is no overlap in the guests at Annex and main dining room.

But we can have separate venn diagrams for Main dining room and separate for Annex.­

1) Main dining room: the two circles, one for eggplant parmesan and one for risotto, would have three parts, only E, only R and both.
Both or overlap will be 5, so only E = 40-5 or 35 and only R = 6-5 or 55. Total 35+5+55 or 95

2) Annex: Again the two circles, one for eggplant parmesan and one for risotto, would have three parts, only E, only R and both.
Only R will be 5, so Not (only R) that is Both + only E = 60. Total 5+60 or 65

Combined 95+65 = 160.
 
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Here's a simplified way to consider the problem. We know the number of dishes but we don't know the number of guests. Why not? Because we don't know who had double meals. Otherwise, the number of dishes and the number of guests will be the same.

(1) tells us that the first room had 5 double meals, so all the rest were single servings and we can count accordingly. It also tells us that the second room had only 5 single-R meals. That means all the rest of the R were double meals. So once again, we know the number of double meals and all the rest are singles. SUFFICIENT.

(2) just tells us that our single-E meals match in both rooms, but it doesn't give any numbers to work with. This would only be useful if we wanted to combine with (1), butit was already sufficient, so there's no need to consider that. INSUFFICIENT.
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Do we assume that when a dish is served, it's consumed? I took the total serves as the total dish availability and tried finding guests which just made me go round and round in the question.
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pranavkhurana17 wrote:
Do we assume that when a dish is served, it's consumed? I took the total serves as the total dish availability and tried finding guests which just made me go round and round in the question.

­The question solely focuses on the dishes served and does not mention whether they were consumed. Therefore, whether the dishes were consumed or not is irrelevant for this question.
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