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2.3 Exercise 15

Avg difficulty 2.5

A survey of 100 students shows that: 60 are men students; 55 students live on campus, 25 of whom are women; 40 read the student newspaper regularly, 25 of whom are women; 70 consider themselves reasonably active in student affairs—50 of these live on campus; 35 of the reasonably active students read the newspaper regularly; All women who live on campus and 5 who live off campus consider themselves to be active; 10 of the on-campus women readers consider themselves active, as do 5 of the off campus women; 5 men are active, off-campus, non readers of the newspaper.

  1. How many active men are either not readers or off campus?
  2. How many inactive men are not regular readers?

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 2.3 Problems on Minterm Analysis, exercise 15

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