Filling in a Venn diagram

100 people are asked if they eat meat, fish, both, or neither.
You are told that 55 eat meat, 52 eat fish, and 21 eat neither.
Use this information to complete the Venn diagram below.

21 eat neither

27 28 24

21
 Finding probabilities
Use the Venn diagram to find
the probability that someone
picked at random:
a) eats meat,

b) eats fish,
c) eats neither,
d) eats only fish,
e) eats both.

‘Given that’

Given that a man eats meat,

find the probability that he
also eats fish.
 Conditional probability
Conditional probability exists when you are given extra
information, that usually results in reducing your sample space.

Formula: probability of A
intersection B.

probability of event A probability of B, the

happening, given B. given that part.
 Questions
120 students in a school can Use your diagram to find the
opt for one or two languages probability of choosing a
for IB. 75 choose Japanese student who,
and 35 choose Chinese. 20 do
b) takes only Japanese,
neither.

a) Draw a Venn diagram to

show this information. c) takes both languages,

d) takes only Japanese given

that they take at least one
language,

e) takes Chinese, given that

they take Japanese.
 Mutually exclusive
In a school of 100 boys the boys can choose to do either netball
or rugby, or neither. 12 do neither, 32 do rugby and 56 do
netball.
Complete a Venn diagram to show this information.
What does this tell us
about rugby and netball
in this school?
They are mutually
exclusive.

Events are mutually exclusive if:

 Independence
Independent events occur when choosing one event has no effect
on whether the second is chosen.

The formula is:

You also need:

1. Are events A and B 2. Are events A and B

independent, given that, independent, given that,

Yes, independent No, not independent

 Questions
Determine which of the events 3. Find x given that events A
A and B are independent in and B are independent.
each of the following questions.

Yes, independent

No, not independent