Problem of the Day
Musicians
In a music
club with 15 members, 7 people played piano, 6 people played guitar, and 4
people didn’t play either of these two instruments. How many people played both piano and guitar?
Homework: Chapter 12 – Read pages 301-top 312.
Assignment: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
TVs
At a large TV appliance store you can purchase a TV in
two sizes: Large or small. Each TV has either a black and white or a
color screen the owner of the store has checked her stock and found out that
she has
23 large TVs
6 small black and white TVs
19 color TVs
21 black and white TVs
How many large color TVs are
there?
How many small TVs are
there?
How many TVs are there in
all?
Clocks
Calvin’s Clock Company makes
clocks. Each cold that the company makes
is either chiming or nonchiming and either digital or nondigital. His clocks in stock have the following
information:
14 are chiming
33 are digital
8 are chiming and digital
46 are neither chiming nor digital.
How many clocks are chiming
but not digital?
How many clocks are
nonchiming and also digital?
How many clocks have at
least one of these two features: chiming
and digital?
How many clocks does Calving
have in stock all together?
Book
A PTA sold books at a
fair. Each book sold was either fiction
or nonfiction and was either a hardback or a paperback. Hardback books of fiction bring in the most
money. The committee chair can’t
remember exactly how many of these were sold, but he does remember that 30
books were sold in all. 20 hardcover
books were sold. 15 books of fiction
were sold. What is the smallest possible
number of hardback books of fiction sold?
What is the largest possible number of hardback books of fiction sold?