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In a town of 10,000 families it was found that 40% family buy newspaper A, 20% buy newspaper B and 10% families buy newspaper C, 5% families buy A and B, 3% buy B and C and 4% buy A and C. If 2% families buy all the three newspapers, then number of families which buy A only is

Updated On: Jul 5, 2022
  • 3100
  • 3300
  • 2900
  • 1400
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The Correct Option is B

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$n(A) = 40\% \,of\, 10,000 = 4,000$ $n(B) = 20\% \,of\, 10,000 = 2,000$ $n(C) = 10\% \,of\, 10,000 = 1,000$ $n(A\cap B) = 5\% \,of\, 10,000 = 500$ $n(B\cap C) = 3\% \,of\, 10,000 = 300$ $n(C \cap A) = 4\% of \,10,000 = 400$ $n(A\cap B \cap C) = 2\% \,of\, 10, 000 = 200$ We want to find $n(A\cap B^c \cap C^c ) = n[A\cap (B\cup C)^c ]$ $= n(A) - n[A \cap (B \cup C)]$ $= n(A) - n[(A\cap B)\cup (A\cap C)]$ $= n(A) -[n(A\cap B) + n(A\cap C) - n(A\cap B\cap C)]$ $= 4000 - [500 +400 - 200] = 4000 - 700 = 3300$.
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Sets

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Example of set: Set of vowels A={a,e,i,o,u}

Representation of Sets

There are three basic notation or representation of sets are as follows:

Statement Form: The statement representation describes a statement to show what are the elements of a set.

  • For example, Set A is the list of the first five odd numbers.

Roster Form: The form in which elements are listed in set. Elements in the set is seperatrd by comma and enclosed within the curly braces.

  • For example represent the set of vowels in roster form.

A={a,e,i,o,u}

Set Builder Form: 

  1. The set builder representation has a certain rule or a statement that specifically describes the common feature of all the elements of a set.
  2. The set builder form uses a vertical bar in its representation, with a text describing the character of the elements of the set.
  3. For example, A = { k | k is an even number, k ≤ 20}. The statement says, all the elements of set A are even numbers that are less than or equal to 20.
  4. Sometimes a ":" is used in the place of the "|".