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Exercise 1

Avg difficulty 2.5

A school has 147147 third graders. The third grade teachers have planned a special treat for the last day of school and brought ice cream for their students. There are three flavors: mint chip, chocolate, and strawberry. Suppose that 6060 students like (at least) mint chip, 103103 like chocolate, 5050 like strawberry, 3030 like mint chip and strawberry, 4040 like mint chip and chocolate, 2525 like chocolate and strawberry, and 1818 like all three flavors. How many students don't like any of the flavors available?

Keller & Trotter, Applied Combinatorics, Inclusion-Exclusion — Exercises, Exercise 1

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