2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 18
Problem
At Jefferson Summer Camp, of the children play soccer,
of the children swim, and
of the soccer players swim. To the nearest whole percent, what percent of the non-swimmers play soccer?
Solutions
Solution 1
Out of the soccer players, swim. As the soccer players are
of the whole, the swimming soccer players are
of all children.
The non-swimming soccer players then form of all the children.
Out of all the children, swim. We know that
of all the children swim and play soccer, hence
of all the children swim and don't play soccer.
Finally, we know that of all the children are non-swimmers. And as
of all the children do not swim but play soccer,
of all the children do not engage in any activity.
A quick summary of what we found out:
: swimming yes, soccer yes
: swimming no, soccer yes
: swimming yes, soccer no
: swimming no, soccer no
Now we can compute the answer. Out of all children, are non-swimmers, and again out of all children
are non-swimmers that play soccer. Hence the percent of non-swimmers that play soccer is
.
Solution 2
Let us set that the total number of children is . So
children play soccer,
swim, and
play soccer and swim.
Thus, children only play soccer.
So our numerator is .
Our denominator is simply
And so we get which is roughly
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