SET THOERY 5.

In an examination, 70% of the students passed

in English, 65% in Mathematics, 27% failed in
1. Sot A has the three elements and set B has six both the subjects and 248 passed in both the
elements. What can be the minimum number of subjects. Find the total number of students.
elements in the set ? A) 610 B) 725
A) 9 B) 3 C) 225 D) 400
C) 6 D) 12 KEY: D
KEY: C SOL: Percentage of those who failed in English
SOL: Minimum number of elements in
Percentage of those who failed in Maths

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Maximum , when
Percentage of those who failed in English
2. Two finite sets have and elements. The
total number of subsets of the first set is 56 only and percentage of those
more than the total number of subsets of the who failed in Maths only
second set. Find the values of and .
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A) 6, 3 B) 1, 2
Total percentage of failed
C) 1, 1 D) 2, 2
KEY: A
SOL: Let A and B be two sets having A (d) and and percentage of passed
elements, respectively. Then, number of subsets
of , number of subsets of .
Given, . Given, x total students =248
Using options we find that and . Total students = 400.
3. Participation in sports is compulsory in a school. 6. In a survey of 100 students it was found that 50
A class has 80 students out of which 60 students used the college library, 40 had their own
play football and 40 students play basketball, library and 30 borrowed books of these, 20 used
find how many students play both football and both the college library and their own, 15 used
basketball? their own library and borrowed books and 10
A) 18 B) 20 used the college library and borrowed books.
C) 15 D) 30 How many students used all the three sources of
KEY: B books?
A) 30 B) 28
SOL: Foot ball, Basket ball.
C) 20 D) 25
Then, KEY: D
SOL: College library, Own library,
borrow books and let All the three
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sources, then
4. In the above question, find how many students
play basketball only ?
A) 19 B) 18
C) 22 D) 20
KEY: D

SOL:
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Now, given
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7. In a group of 800 persons, 600 can speak
English and 400 can speak Telugu. If all the
people speak at least one of the two languages,
find how many can speak exactly one
languages?
A) 300 B) 400
C) 600 D) 200 10. Set A has 4 elements and set B has 7 elements.
KEY: C What can be the minimum number of elements
SOL: People who speaks both language in ?
A) 4 B) 7
C) 6 D) 5
Persons who speak English only
KEY: B
SOL: Minimum number of elements in .
Persons who speak Telugu only 11. In a group of 20 adults there are 8 females, 9
literate and 6 female literate. Find the number of
Hence, persons who can speak exactly one male illiterates in the group.
language A) 15 B) 6
C) 9 D) 12
. KEY: C
8. A survey shows that 63% of the Americans like SOL:
apples whereas 76% like gems. What
percentage of American's like both apples and
gems?
A) 40% B) 32%
C) 49% D) 39%
KEY: D
SOL: Total number of Americans,

Number of male illiterate in the group

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. 12. A class of 30 students comprises boys who can
9. In the above question, what is the maximum play Cricket, Hockey and Football. 3 boys play
percentage of employees who invest in all the only Cricket, 3 boys play only Hockey and 2
three schemes? play only football, 4 boys could play all the
A) 33.33% B) 30% three games, while 11 could play Football and
C) 45% D) 40% Cricket, and 10 boys could play Football and
KEY: C Hockey. How many boys played Cricket and
SOL: To calculate the maximum number of Hockey but not Football?
employees investing in all the three schemes, let A) 2 B) 4
C) 1 D) 5
KEY: D
Let SOL:
Then,
 A) 21 B) 22
C) 23 D) 24
KEY: C
SOL: Let sets X, Y, Z represent persons who can
speak Tamil, Hindi and Gujrati, respectively.

13. In the above question, how many boys can play

atleast two games?
A) 22 B) 18
C) 16 D) 12 Now, it is given that
KEY: A Tamil speaking persons
SOL: Number of boys playing atleast two games

. Hindi speaking persons

14. In a survey conducted in a city every family
read Hindi newspaper or English newspaper,
Gujrati speaking persons
65% read Hindi newspaper, 42% read English
newspaper. If total number of families in the
city is 18000, then find how many read both Persons speaking two languages
Hindi and English newspaper?
A) 1620 B) 1260 Persons speaking three languages
C) 1400 D) 1350
KEY: B
SOL: Required % We have now,

Required number

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15. Describe the shaded region. And
On subtracting Eq. (ix) from Eq. (vi), we get

On adding Eqs. and , we get

A) B)
On adding Eqs. (x) and (xi), we get
C) D) A and C
KEY: D
Or
SOL: Shaded region represents or .
16. In a group of persons travelling in a bus, 6
17. In a town 65% people watched the news on
persons can speak Tamil, 15 can speak Hindi
television, 40% read a newspaper and 25% read
and 6 can speak Gujrati. In that group, none can
a newspaper and watched the news on television
speak any other language. If 2 persons in the
also. What per cent of the people neither
group can speak two languages and one persons
watched the news on television nor read a
can speak all the three languages, then how
newspaper?
many persons are there in the group.
A) 5 B) 19
 C) 15 D) 20
KEY: D

SOL: .
Hence, 20% persons do not watch either news
on T.V. or read a newspaper.
18. There are 50 students admitted to a nursery
class. Some students can speak only English and
some can speak only Hindi. Ten students can Number of musicians who can play any two and
speak both English and Hindi. If the number of only two of the instruments .
students who can speak English is 21, then how
many students can speak Hindi, how many can Number of musicians who can play violin
speak only Hindi and how many can speak only alone or flute only
English?
A) 39, 29 and 11 respectively
B) 37, 27 and 13 respectively
C) 28, 18 and 22 respectively 20. In a factory, where working in atleast one
D) 21, 11 and 29 respectively department is mandatory, 70% are in
KEY: A administration, 65% are in production and 80%
are in marketing. What are the minimum
SOL: , , percentage of employees that could have been
working in all three departments?
A) 28% B) 40%
C) 32% D) 15%
KEY: D
SOL: 70% are in administration. it means at least 30%
And are in production or marketing or both In the
. same way, 65% are in production means at least
19. Out of a total of 120 musician in a cub, 5% can 35% are in administration or marketing or both.
play all the three instruments – guitar, violin and Similarly, 80% are in marketing, means 20% are
flute. It so happens that the number of musicians in administration or production or both.
who can play any two and only two of the above
instruments 30. The number of musicians who
can play the guitar alone is 40. What is the total
number of those who can play violin alone or
flute alone?
A) 30 B) 38
C) 44 D) 45
KEY: C Adding all three
SOL: Let sets A, B and C represents the musicians
who can play guitar, violin and flute .
respectively. It means that if there is no inter section in these
three themselves 85% would be maximum
Given,
number of employees in all the three
of . departments alone – A, B, C alone or

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This implies, that at least 15% would be in all
three departments.