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Six people in a company cafeteria for lunch are only eating from the salad bar and the soup bar, 10 people are only eating from the sandwich station, and 15 people are only eating from the salad bar and the sandwich station. Only 3 people are eating from all three options, while 8 people are eating neither sandwiches nor salads. If no one is eating a combination from the soup bar and sandwich station, how many of the 70 people eating in the cafeteria are consuming salad?

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B. 24
C. 28
D. 45
E. 52
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Answer is E. 52

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Six people in a company cafeteria for lunch are only eating from the salad bar and the soup bar, 10 people are only eating from the sandwich station, and 15 people are only eating from the salad bar and the sandwich station. Only 3 people are eating from all three options, while 8 people are eating neither sandwiches nor salads. If no one is eating a combination from the soup bar and sandwich station, how many of the 70 people eating in the cafeteria are consuming salad?

A. 13
B. 24
C. 28
D. 45
E. 52
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Trying to see why the formula here doesn't work?
Soup = 8
Sandwich = 10
Salad = X
Exactly Two Overlaps = 6 + 15 = 21
All Three = 3

I get 70 = 10 + 8 + x - 21 - 2(3) which isn't getting me the right answer.

Luckily, I was able to quickly draw out the venn diagram solution to get to the answer, but wanted to see where I went wrong with applying the formula.
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Six people in a company cafeteria for lunch are only eating from the salad bar and the soup bar, 10 people are only eating from the sandwich station, and 15 people are only eating from the salad bar and the sandwich station. Only 3 people are eating from all three options, while 8 people are eating neither sandwiches nor salads. If no one is eating a combination from the soup bar and sandwich station, how many of the 70 people eating in the cafeteria are consuming salad?

A. 13
B. 24
C. 28
D. 45
E. 52

Trying to see why the formula here doesn't work?
Soup = 8
Sandwich = 10
Salad = X
Exactly Two Overlaps = 6 + 15 = 21
All Three = 3

I get 70 = 10 + 8 + x - 21 - 2(3) which isn't getting me the right answer.

Luckily, I was able to quickly draw out the venn diagram solution to get to the answer, but wanted to see where I went wrong with applying the formula.
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Because, in the formula we need to put = 17 + 28 + x - 21 - 6 = 70. x = 52.

10 and 8 are individual values only without including the common values for both the sandwiches and soups. It will be 10 + 15 + 3 = total number of sandwiches.
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Six people in a company cafeteria for lunch are only eating from the salad bar and the soup bar, 10 people are only eating from the sandwich station, and 15 people are only eating from the salad bar and the sandwich station. Only 3 people are eating from all three options, while 8 people are eating neither sandwiches nor salads. If no one is eating a combination from the soup bar and sandwich station, how many of the 70 people eating in the cafeteria are consuming salad?

A. 13
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D. 45
E. 52
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Just a thought:

We have to assume that each person is eating at least one of the three options ( there are only these three options in the cafeteria ). So there is no one that does not eat salad or soup or sandwich, perhaps drinks only tea.
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