Teaching Pack – Venn diagrams

Lesson 4 – Constructing Venn diagrams to solve problems

Cambridge IGCSE™
Mathematics 0580

Version 1.0
Lesson objective

Draw and use Venn diagrams to solve a range of problems.

 Try this!

In a class there are 30 students.

17 study History, 18 study Geography and 5 study neither.
How many students study both History and Geography?

E 5

7 10 8
?

History Geography
 Try this!

There are 100 students in a school.

85 of the students study at least one of: Physics, Chemistry
Chemistry or Maths.
5 students study all three subjects. 23
13 students study Physics and Maths, 10 2
15 students study Physics and Chemistry and 5
7 study Chemistry and Maths. 7 8 30
There are 45 maths students and
30 physics students. Physics Maths
How many students studied just Chemistry?
85 – 10 – 7 – 5 – 8 – 2 – 30 = 23
So 23 studied just Chemistry
Try this!

The Venn diagram below shows how many people in a class of 34 listened to the
radio or watched television in the past day.
How many people watched TV in the past day?

E 8
(x + 10) + 2x + (x – 4) =
26 + 6 = 26
4x
x + 10 2x x-4
x=5
Therefore 25 people watch TV.
TV Radio