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Venn diagrams and two-way tables - Word problems

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At a university there are $816$816 students studying first year engineering, $497$497 of whom are female (set $F$F). $237$237 of these women are studying Civil Engineering, and there are $348$348 students studying Civil Engineering altogether (set $C$C).

a

State the value of $w$w in the diagram.

b

State the value of $x$x in the diagram.

c

State the value of $y$y in the diagram.

d

State the value of $z$z in the diagram.

e

What is the probability that a randomly selected male student does not study Civil Engineering?

Easy
8min

In a group of $69$69 people, $45$45 said they had been to Europe ($E$E) and $26$26 said they had been to Asia ($A$A).

$8$8 people said they had been to neither Europe nor Asia.

Easy
8min

$87$87 people are questioned about whether they own a tablet ($T$T) or a smartphone ($S$S). The probabilities shown in the list below were determined from the results.

Easy
14min

$100$100 office workers are surveyed about whether they buy a coffee (set $C$C) or lunch (set $L$L) during the work day. Some of the results are shown in the Venn diagram below.

Easy
4min
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Recognize and describe an event as a set of outcomes and as a subset of a sample space, determine the complement of an event, determine whether two or more events are mutually exclusive or non-mutually exclusive, and solve related probability problems using a variety of strategies

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