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LRDI - 13
Set Theory - 1
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1. S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}.

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(i) How many subsets of S are there?

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(ii) How many proper subsets of S are there?
(iii) How many subsets of S contain at least 1 even number?

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(iv)How many subsets of S are there in which at least one of 2, 3 and 4 is there and at least one of 5, 6 and 7 is not there?
(v) How many subsets of S are there which contains 2 if 5 is also there.

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(vi)In how many subsets of S, if 6 is there, then it must be highest?

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There are certain number of students in a university class. Of all, 25 students play hockey, 12 play cricket, and 18 play football. Of these,
10 students play both hockey and cricket, 9 play both cricket and football, and 14 play both football and hockey. If 8 students play all the
three games, how many students are there in the class?
(1) 28
(2) 30
(3) 31
(4) 29
(5) Cannot be determined
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3. In a class of 42 students, each plays at least one of cricket, hockey and football; 14 play cricket, 20 play hockey and 24 play football, 3 play

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both cricket and football, 2 play both hockey and football and none of them plays all the three. How many students play cricket but not
hockey?
(1) 11
(2) 0

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(3) 14
(4) 3
(5) 12

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81 students appeared the examinations in physics, chemistry and biology. 46 students passed in physics, 47 students passed in chemistry,
and 48 students passed in biology; 29 students passed in physics and chemistry, 27 students passed in chemistry and biology, and 13
students passed in physics and biology. The largest possible number that could have passed all the three examinations is
(1) 6
(2) 9
(3) 7
(4) 8
(5) None of these
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Eighty-five children went to an amusement park where they could ride on the merry-go round, roller coaster, and Ferris wheel. It
was known that 20 of them took all the 3 rides, and 55 of them took at least 2 of the 3 rides. Each ride cost Re 1, and the total
receipt of the amusement park was Rs.145. [Any children took a ride in any of the rides only once]

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5. How many children did not try any of the rides?

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(1) 5

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(2) 10
(3) 15
(4) 20
(5) 18

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6. How many children took exactly one ride?
(1) 5
(2) 10
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(3) 15
(4) 20
(5) 12
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At a certain conference of 100 people, there are 29 Indian women and 23 Indian men. Of these Indian people, 4 are doctors and 24
are either men or doctors. There are no foreign doctors.

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7. How many foreigners are attending the conference?

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(1) 51

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(2) 55
(3) 52
(4) 48
(5) Data insufficient

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8. How many women doctors are attending the conference?
(1) 4
(2) 1
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(3) 0
(4) 2
(5) Data insufficient
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The 2016 batch of a premier B- school in India fared poorly in the three courses namely Statistics, Economics and Business Maths
in their first semester examinations. The batch was divided into four sections A, B, C and D and every student in the batch wrote

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the examination on each of the three mentioned courses. The following bar graph provides information about the number of
students who failed in each of the courses in the four sections. It also provides information about the total number of students and

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the number of students who failed in two courses in each of the four sections. No student failed in all the three courses.

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Number of Students

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61 60 65 C
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60 48 45 49
39 43 D
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40 28 24 26
19 23 21
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Failed in Failed in Failed in Failed in Two Total number
Statistics Economics Business courses of students
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9. In section A, how many students failed in only one course?

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(1) 61

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(2) 62
(3) 63
(4) 64
(5) 65

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In section C, how many students failed in atleast one course?
(1) 102
(2) 96
(3) 95
(4) 107
(5) 89
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11. How many students in the 2016 batch passed in all the three courses?

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(1) 58

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(2) 61
(3) 62
(4) 64
(5) 67

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12.

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Across all the four sections at most how many students failed only in Statistics?
(1) 171
(2) 179
(3) 161
(4) 175
(5) 144
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13. Across all the four sections at most how many students passed in both Statistics and Business Maths?

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(1) 121

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(2) 136
(3) 153
(4) 197
(5) 217

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There are 170 members in a club. Each one of them belongs to one or more categories out of the four categories viz. Service
holder, Professional degree holder, Physically challenged and Married. There are 60 Service holders, 40 Professional degree
holders, 50 Physically challenged and 70 Married members.

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14. If the number of members who belong to all four categories is maximum possible, then how many members belong to at least three

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categories?

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(2) 17
(3) 16
(4) Either (1) or (2)
(5) Either (2) or (3)

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If there are exactly 10 members who belong to all four categories, then find the maximum possible number of members belonging to only
Physically challenged category.
(1) 40
(2) 35
(3) 30
(4) 38
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16. A survey was conducted on the eating habits of a group of 1000 people. Results show that 92% of the people surveyed eat south Indian

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food, 91% eat North Indian food, 82% eat American food, 78% eat Chinese food, 79% eat Italian food and 80% eat Continental food. What
must be the minimum number of people who eat all the 6 types of food, if 7 people do not eat any of the six types of food?
(1) 0
(2) 13

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(3) 27
(4) 55
(5) Cannot be determined

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153 persons bought three different kinds of cellular phones namely Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. The number of people who
bought both Nokia and Sony Ericsson is 30. The number of people who bought both Nokia and Motorola and the number of people
who bought both Sony Ericsson and Motorola is 20 and 25 respectively. The ratio of the difference between the people who bought

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only Nokia and only Sony Ericsson to the difference between the number of people who bought only Nokia and only Motorola is
2:3. For every one person who bought only Sony Ericsson, there are two persons who bought only Nokia. Among the persons who

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bought only one kind of mobile phone, number of persons buying Nokia was the highest.

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17. Find the minimum possible number of persons who bought all three kinds of cellular phones.

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(2) 1
(3) 2
(4) 3
(5) 4

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(1) 95
(2) 97
(3) 59
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(4) 96
(5) None of these
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19. Seventy percent of the employees in a multinational corporation have VCD players, 75% have microwave ovens, 80% have ACS and 85%

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have washing machines. At least what percentage of employees has all four gadgets?

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(2) 5
(3) 10
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20. A survey on a sample of 25 new cars being sold at a local auto dealer was conducted to see which of the three popular options — air

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conditioning, radio and power windows were already installed.

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Following were the observation of the survey:

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I. 15 had air conditioning
II. 2 had air conditioning and power windows but no radios
III. 12 had radio
IV. 6 had air conditioning and radio but no power windows
V. 11 had power windows

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VI. 4 had radio and power windows
VII.3 had all three options

(1) 4
(2) 3
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(4) 2
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