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QOTD # 11 Of the students in a school, 20 percent are in the
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Of the students in a school, 20 percent are in the science club and 30 percent are in the band. If 25 percent of the students in the school are in the band but are not in the science club, what percent of the students who are in the science club are not in the band?
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Explanation
Use the Double Matrix Method. This technique can be used for most questions featuring a population in which each member has two characteristics associated with it (aka overlapping sets questions). Here, we have a population of students, and the two characteristics are: - in the science club or not in the science club - in the band or not in the band
So, we can set up our matrix as follows:
Since we aren't told the total population AND we're asked to find a percentage, let's say that the TOTAL population is 100 (an easy number to work with)
20 percent of the students are in the science club, and 30 percent of the students are in the band Since the total population is 100, this means that there are 20 students in the science club. Also, since there are 100 students, we can conclude that 80 students are NOT in teh science club. Likewise, if 30 students are in the band, then 70 students are NOT in the band. So, let's add all of this to the diagram:
25 percent of the students in the school are in the band but are not in the science club Great. We'll add this to our diagram:
Since the two boxes in the left-hand column must add to 30, we can see that the top box must hold 5 students
Since the two boxes in the top row must add to 20, we can see that the top right box must hold 15 students
Using similar logic, we can see that the last box holds 55 students
What percent of the students who are in the science club are not in the band? Our diagram tells us that there are 20 students in the science club. Of those 20 students, 15 are NOT in the band. 15/20 = 75%
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09 May 2020, 11:24
Hi Brent,
Would the answer have been 15% if the question asked "what percent of students are in the science club but are not in the band?" So in this case it would be students who are in science but not in band over the total number of students. I think the reason I got confused with the original question was because I was finding the percentage of students who were in science and not in band from the overall total number of students instead of calculating the percent as a total of students who took Science.
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09 May 2020, 13:20
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GREStudent2020 wrote:
Hi Brent,
Would the answer have been 15% if the question asked "what percent of students are in the science club but are not in the band?" So in this case it would be students who are in science but not in band over the total number of students. I think the reason I got confused with the original question was because I was finding the percentage of students who were in science and not in band from the overall total number of students instead of calculating the percent as a total of students who took Science.
That's correct. 15 percent of all students are in the science club but not in the band.
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11 Jan 2022, 23:25
Could you solve this using Venn diagram please? I'm getting the answer as 15% only, how is it not in the options only?
GreenlightTestPrep wrote:
GREStudent2020 wrote:
Hi Brent,
Would the answer have been 15% if the question asked "what percent of students are in the science club but are not in the band?" So in this case it would be students who are in science but not in band over the total number of students. I think the reason I got confused with the original question was because I was finding the percentage of students who were in science and not in band from the overall total number of students instead of calculating the percent as a total of students who took Science.
That's correct. 15 percent of all students are in the science club but not in the band.
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Sure. I've taken two overlapping circles - Science club & band. Assuming X as the total strength Science club= 0.2X Band= 0.3X Only Band= 0.25X Therefore, Band or Science= 0.3X - 0.25X= 0.05X Only the Science club could be easily found out by subtracting 0.05X from 0.2X, which is 0.15X This is the percent of the students who are in the science club who are not in the band right. So the answer should be 15%
GreenlightTestPrep wrote:
Chaithraln2499 wrote:
Could you solve this using Venn diagram please? I'm getting the answer as 15% only, how is it not in the options only?
I think it makes more sense to have you show me how you arrived at 15%.
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