In a class of 80 students, every students studies Economics or Geography or both. If 65 students study Economics and 50 study Geography, how many study both...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - General Mathematics - 2001 (Objective) Subject: General Mathematics

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In a class of 80 students, every students studies Economics or Geography or both. If 65 students study Economics and 50 study Geography, how many study both subjects?

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We can solve this problem using a Venn diagram. Let's draw two circles, one for Economics and one for Geography, with some overlap between them. We know that 65 students study Economics, so we'll put 65 in the circle for Economics. Similarly, we know that 50 students study Geography, so we'll put 50 in the circle for Geography. Now we need to figure out how many students study both subjects. We can call this number "x" for now. We'll put "x" in the overlap between the two circles. We also know that every student in the class studies either Economics or Geography or both. So we need to account for all 80 students in the class. To do this, we can add up the numbers we've put in the circles and subtract the overlap once (since the students in the overlap were counted twice). In other words, Number of students studying Economics + Number of students studying Geography - Number of students studying both = Total number of students in the class Or, 65 + 50 - x = 80 Simplifying, 115 - x = 80 x = 35 So 35 students study both Economics and Geography. Therefore, the answer is option (C) 35.

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