+1712 Okay, I went online and found a bunch of problems, but the ones idk/unshure , I'm posting here.
In a survey of 100 readers, all of whom liked fiction and/or non-fiction, three times as many people reported liking fiction as those who reported liking non-fiction. Of those surveyed, eight liked both fiction and non-fiction. How many people reported liking non-fiction?
For this one, I started drawing a Venn diagram then got confused...
Is my approach wrong?
+312 A Venn diagram is a good way to visualize these kind of problems, but if you get more familiar with the concept and how you can manipulate the numbers, it will be way easier than drawing out a Venn diagram. Out of all 100 people, 8 people liked both non fiction and fiction. Then, it tells us three times as many people like fiction over nonfiction. Consider nonfiction to be x.
3x like fiction and x and non fiction. We also have to look at the 8 people who like both. They are included in the people who like fiction and non fiction. In order to get an accurate response... you have to do the subtract the 8 out of the total.
FICTION - 8 + NONFICTION - 8 + 8 = TOTAL
3x - 8 + x - 8 + 8 = 100
4x - 8 = 100
4x = 108
x = 27
Since we said x was non-fiction, 27 people reported liking non-fiction.
+1712 Thank you so much!
Very helpful!
But why do you have to subtract 8 from both?
Cant, you just subtract one 8 and leave the rest alone?
+312 Go back to that Venn diagram.
It would have a place for FICTION, a place for NONFICTION, and then an intersection. We have to subtract eight from both because 8 people like both. If they like both, that means they are included in the place where people like fiction, in the place where people like nonfiction, and the intersection. We don't want this to be counted three times. Instead, we subtract 8 from both main quantities and just leave the thing that is common. If you haven't already, you should look at the basics of sets. It kind of gets into this topic once you learn the main idea.
+312 I hope you enjoyed getting schooled by a seventh grader! I'm just kidding. I wish you the best of luck for your MATHCOUNTS entry exam.
+2862 Its ok lol
your math skills will increase as you grow up.
your brain will grow BIGGER.
+1712 And YOU will get kicked out of AOPS for TROLLING FTW with your SKILLS
+2862 Lol i have no skills my rating is a lowly 1217.
You START at 1200 lol.
+2862 wow that is gud.
I at first dropped all the way to a 1017, then I worked slowly to a 1217.
