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Set Theory and Probability: B A N B N A N B A N

1) The document is a problem sheet containing 7 questions on set theory and probability. The questions involve calculating totals based on information given about subsets within populations. 2) Question 1 proves an identity relating the total size of the union of two sets to their individual sizes and intersection. 3) Question 2 calculates how many students did not play any games and how many played only one game, given data on students who played various games.

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Set Theory and Probability: B A N B N A N B A N

1) The document is a problem sheet containing 7 questions on set theory and probability. The questions involve calculating totals based on information given about subsets within populations. 2) Question 1 proves an identity relating the total size of the union of two sets to their individual sizes and intersection. 3) Question 2 calculates how many students did not play any games and how many played only one game, given data on students who played various games.

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Problem Sheet-6

Set Theory and Probability


BMT-101, Business Mathematics-I
Course Instructor Mozumdar Arifa Ahmed

n( A B ) n( A) n( B ) n( A B )
1. Prove that , where A and B are two finite sets.

2. Out of 1300 students of EU, 500 played cricket, 350 played football, and 512 played
table tennis; of the total 90 played both cricket and football, 152 played foot ball and
table tennis, 90 played cricket and table tennis, and 60 played all the three games.
(i) How many students did not play any game?
(ii) How many students played only one game?

3. A roads and highway construction firm has 33 bulldozer drivers, 22 crane drivers and
35 cement-mixture drivers. Of the drivers 14 persons can drive both mixture and
bulldozer, 10 persons can both drive mixture and crane, 10 persons can drive both
bulldozer and crane and 4 persons can drive all the three machines. Determine the total
number of drivers of the firm.

4. A town has a total population of 75,000. Out of it 31,000 read the Daily Star and
24,000 read the Daily Observer while 4,500 read both the papers. Indicate how many
people read neither Daily Star nor Daily Observer.

5. In a class of 35 students, 20 students have taken Economics; 12 have taken Economics


but not Business Mathematics. Find the number of students who have taken Economics
and Business Mathematics and also find those who have taken Business Mathematics but
not Economics.

6. 168 ladies work in a company. Among them 91 wear shari, 103 wear shalowar-kamiz
and 7 wear shirt-pant. 29 wear both shari and shalowar-kamiz, 4 wear both shalowar-
kamiz and shirt-pant.
(i)How many ladies wear only shari?
(ii) How many ladies wear only one type of dress?

7. Show with the help of a Venn diagram:


A BC
(i)
A B C
(ii)
( A B) C
(iii)
( A B) C
(iv)

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