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Problem-Solving Strategies
1. Finding a Pattorn
II. Making an Organized List: Venn Diagram
III. Eliminating Possibilities
PROBLEM SET 3
Making an Organized List Strategy
Direction: Createa Venn Diagram and answer the questions in each item.
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2. A survey of 120 people was conducted to determine who have watched from.
the three different television networks. The results are shown in the table
below.
TV. Network No. of
People
‘ABS-CBN 55
GMA 30
TV5 40
ABS-CBNandTV5 10
‘ABS-CBNand GMA 12
GMA and TV 5 8
ABS-CBN, GMA and TV 5 3
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b. GMANTVS
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were interviewed but did not
choose any of the items
provided
3. A survey on subjects being taken by 250 college students in La Union
revealed the following information:
Subject No. of Students
‘Taking the
Subject
Mathematics 145
Filipino 90
English 88
Mathematics and Filipino 28
Mathematics and English 59
Filipino and English 38
Mathematics, Filipino and 16
English
a. How many did not take any of the three subjects?
b. How many took Math as their only subject? English only? Filipino only?
c. How many were taking Math and Filipino but not English?
d. How many were taking English subjects?
4. The chain of 44 WSS boutiques in the Philippines provided the following
information:
19 of the boutiques import their garments from Italy,
14 of the boutiques import their garments from France,
10 of the boutiques import their garments from Germany,
6 of the boutiques import their garments from Italy and France.
5 of the boutiques import their garments from France and Germany,
8 of the boutiques import their garments from Italy and Germany,
2 of the boutiques import their garments from Italy. France. and
Germany. a. How many of the boutiques purchase their garments from exactly one
country?
b. Determine the number of boutiques which does not purchase any
garments from the three countries.
cc. How many of the boutiques purchase from France and Germany but not
Italy?
d. Find how many of the WSS boutiques purchase their garments from at least
one of the three countries.
. Ifa club of 45 members admitted only ownors of computor desktop and/or
laptop, and if 28 members owned a desktop and 37 members owned laptop,
how many members owned both a desktop and a laptop?
. Suppose that 53 of the 55 Computer Science students of SLC are taking at least
one of the mathematics subjects Algebra, Trigonometry. and Calculus. Also
suppose that:
24 taking Algebra,
26 taking Trigonometry,
20 taking Calculus,
5 taking Algebra and Trigonometry,
7 taking Algebra and Calculus, and
8 jonometry and Calculus.
a. Find the number of students who are taking all three subjects.
b. Determine the number of students who are not taking any of the subjects.
c. How many of the students are taking Algebra as their only subject?
d. How many of the students were taking Calculus and Trigonometry but not
Algebra?
