SETS (WORDS PROBLEMS)

Q 1. If X and Y are two sets such that n (X) = 17, n (Y) = 23 and n (X  Y) = 38, find n (X
 Y).
1. 2
Q 2. In a group of 800 people, 550 can speak Hindi and 450 can speak English. How many
can speak both Hindi and English ?
2. 200
Q 3. In a class of 35 students, 24 like to play cricket and 16 like to play football. Also, each
student likes to play at least one of the two games. How many students like to play
both cricket and football?
3. 5
Q 4. In a group of 50 people, 35 speak Hindi, 25 speak both English and Hindi and all the
people speak at least one of the two languages. How many people speak only English
and not Hindi 1 How many people speak English?
4. 40
Q 5. There are 200 individuals with a skin disorder, 120 has been exposed to chemical C1,
50 to chemical C2 and 30 to both the chemicals C1 and C2. Find the number of
individuals exposed to (i) chemical C1 or chemical C2 (ii) chemical C1 but not
chemical C2 (iii) chemical C2 but not chemical C1.
5. (i) 140 (ii) 90 (iii) 20
Q 6. Out of 500 car owners investigated, 400 owned Maruti car and 200 owned. Hyundai
car; 50 owned both cars. Is this data correct ?
6. Incorrect
Q 7. If A and B be two sets containing 3 and 6 elements respectively, what can be the
minimum number of elements in A  B? Find also, the maximum number of
elements in A  B.
7. 6
Q 8. A market research group conducted a survey of 2000 consumers and reported that
1720 consumers liked product P1 and 1450 consumers liked product P2. What is the
least number that must have liked both the products ?
8. 1170
Q 9. There are 40 students in a chemistry class and 60 students in a physics class. Find the
number of students which are either in physics class or chemistry class in the
following cases:
(i) the two classes meet at the same hour.
(ii) the two classes meet at different hours and 20 students are enrolled in both the
subjects.
9. (i) 100 (ii) 80
Q 10. If A, B and C are three sets and U is the universal set such that n(U) = 700, n(A) =
200, n(B) = 300 and n(A  B) = 100. Find n (A'  B').
10. 300
Q 11. In a survey of 700 students in a college, 180 were listed as drinking Limca, 275 as
drinking Miranda and 95 were listed as both drinking Limca as well as Miranda. Find
how many students were drinking neither Limca nor Miranda.
11. 340
Q 12. A survey shows that 63% of the Americans like cheese whereas 76% like apples. If x
% of the Americans like both cheese and apples, find the value of x.
12. 39 ≤ x ≤ 63
Q 13. In a class of 35 students, 17 have taken mathematics, 10 have taken mathematics but
not economics. Find the number of students who have taken both mathematics and
economics and the number of students who have taken economics but not
mathematics, if it is given that each student has taken either mathematics or
economics or both.
13. 18
Q 14. In a town of '10,000 families it was found that 40% families buy newspaper A, 20%
families 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 news
papers, find the number of families which buy (i) A only (ii) B only (in) none of A, B
and C.
14. (i) 3300 (ii) 1400 (iii) 4000
Q 15. A college awarded 38 medals in Football, 15 in Basketball and 20 to Cricket. If, these
medals went to a total of 58 men and only three men got medals in all the three sports,
how many received medals in exactly two of the three sports ?
15. 9
Q 16. In a survey of 25 students, it was found that 15 had taken mathematics, 12 had taken
physics and 11 had taken chemistry, 5 had taken mathematics and chemistry, 9 had
taken mathematics and physics, 4 had taken physics and chemistry and 3 had taken all
the three [Link] the number of students that had
(i) only chemistry. (ii) only mathematics. (iii) only physics. (iv) physics and chemistry
but not mathematics. (v) mathematics and physics but not chemistry. (vi) only one of
the subjects. (vii) at least one of the three subjects. (viii) none of the subjects.
16. (i) 5 (ii) 4 (iii) 2 (iv) 1 (v) 6 (vi) 11 (vii) 23 (viii) 2

Q 17. If A and B are two sets such that n(A  B) = 50, n (A) = 28 and n (B) = 32, find n (A
 B).
Q18. If P and Q are two sets such that P has 40 elements, P  Q has 60 elements and P 
Q has 10 elements, how many elements does Q have ?
Q 19. In a school there are 20 teachers who teach mathematics or physics. Of these, 12 teach
mathematics and 4 teach physics and mathematics. How many teach physics?
Q 20. In a group of 70 people, 37 like coffee, 52 like lea and each person likes at least one
of the two drinks. How many like both coffee and tea ?
Q 21. Let A and B be two sets such that: n (A) = 20, n (A  B) = 42 and n (A  B) = 4.
Find
(i) n(B) (ii) n(A - B) (iii) n (B - A)
Q 22. A survey shows that 76% of the Indians like oranges, whereas 62% like bananas.
What percentage of the Indians like both oranges and bananas ?
Q 23. In a group of 950 persons, 750 can speak Hindi and 460 can speak English. Find :
(i) how many can speak both Hindi and English: (ii) how many can speak Hindi only;
(iii) how many can speak English only,
Q 24. In a group of 50 persons, 14 drink tea but not coffee and 30 drink tea. Find:
(i) how may drink tea and coffee both; (ii) how many drink coffee but not tea.
Q 25. In a survey of 60 people, it was found that 25 people read newspaper H, 26 read
newspaper T, 26 read newspaper I,9 read both H and I, 11 read both H and T, 8 read
both T and I, 3 read all three newspapers. Find:
(i) the numbers of people who read at least one of the newspapers.
(ii) the number of people who read exactly one newspaper.
Q 26. Of the members of three athletic teams in a certain school, 21 are in the basketball
team, 26 in hockey team and 29 in the football team. 14 play hockey and basket ball,
15 play hockey and football, 12 play football and basketball and 8 play all the three
games. How many members are there in all ?
Q 27. In a group of 1000 people, there are 750 who can speak Hindi and 400 who can speak
Bengali. How many can speak Hindi only? How many can speak Bengali ? How
many can speak both Hindi and Bengali ?
Q 28. A survey of 500 television viewers produced the following information; 285 watch
football, 195 watch hockey, 115 watch basketball, 45 watch football and basketball,
70 watch football and hockey, 50 watch hockey and basketball, 50 do not watch any
of the three games. How many watch all the three games? How many watch exactly
one of the three games ?
Q 29. In a survey of 100 persons it was found that 28 read magazine A, 30 read magazine B,
42 read magazine C, 8 read magazines A and B, 10 read magazines A and C, 5 read
magazines B and C and 3 read all the three magazines. Find :
(i) How many read none of three magazines ? (ii) How many read magazine C only ?
Q 30. In a survey of 100 students, the number of students studying the various languages
were found to be : English only 18, English but not Hindi 23, English and Sanskrit 8,
English 26, Sanskrit 48, Sanskrit and Hindi 8, no language 24. Find :
(i) How many students were studying Hindi ?
(ii) How many students were studying English and Hindi ?
Q 31. In a survey it was found that 21 persons liked product P1, 26 liked product P2 and 29
liked product P3. If 14 persons liked products P1 and P2; 12 persons liked product P3
and P1; 14 persons liked products P2 and P3 and 8 liked all the three products. Find
how many liked product P3 only.
ANSWERS
17. 10 18. 30 19. 12 20. 19 21. (i) 26 (ii) 16 (iii) 22 22. 38%
23. (i) 260 (ii) 490 (iii) 200 24. (i) 16 (ii) 20 25. (i) 52 (ii) 30
26. 43 27. (i) 600 (ii) 250 (iii) 150 28. 20,325
29. (i) 20 (ii) 30 30. (i) 18 (ii) 3 31. 11