2015 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15
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Problem
At Euler Middle School, students voted on two issues in a school referendum with the following results:
voted in favor of the first issue and
voted in favor of the second issue. If there were exactly
students who voted against both issues, how many students voted in favor of both issues?
Solutions
Solution 1
We can see that this is a Venn Diagram Problem.
First, we analyze the information given. There are students. Let's use A as the first issue and B as the second issue.
students were for the A, and
students were for B. There were also
students against both A and B.
Solving this without a Venn Diagram, we subtract away from the total,
. Out of the remaining
, we have
people for A and
people for B. We add this up to get
. Since that is more than what we need, we subtract
from
to get
.
(to editors: this looks really weird)Venn Diagram (I couldn't make circles), We need to know how many voted in favor for both Issue A Against both issues Issue B 149 students 29 students 119 students 149+29+119=297 297-198=99 students in favor for both
Solution 2
There are people. We know that
people voted against both the first issue and the second issue. That leaves us with
people that voted for at least one of them. If
people voted for both of them, then that would leave
people out of the vote, because
is less than
people.
is
, so to make it even, we have to take
away from the
people, which leaves us with
Solution 3
Divide the students into four categories:
- A. Students who voted in favor of both issues.
- B. Students who voted against both issues.
- C. Students who voted in favor of the first issue, and against the second issue.
- D. Students who voted in favor of the second issue, and against the first issue.
We are given that:
students voted in favor of the first issue.
students voted in favor of the second issue.
We can quickly find that:
students voted against the second issue.
students voted against the first issue.
The answer is .
Video Solution
https://youtu.be/OOdK-nOzaII?t=827
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