Science Anyone?
A survey was taken of students at the
university concerning their enrollment in liberal arts courses. Each of 600 students was asked to answer yes
or no to each of the questions:
Are you enrolled in a humanities
course?
Are you enrolled in a natural science
course?
Are you enrolled in a social science
course?
So far the
following data from the survey have been tabulated.
250 of the students
survey are enrolled in natural science courses
100 are enrolled both in a humanities
course and a social science course
130 are enrolled in a natural science
course but not in a humanities course
120 are enrolled only in a social
science course
30 are enrolled in all three course areas
270 are enrolled in a social science
course
300 are enrolled in only one of the
three areas
The dean of
liberal arts is interested in know the answers to the questions.
a) How many of the students surveyed are
enrolled in none of these three areas?
b) How many of the student surveyed are enrolled in at least one of the three areas?
c) How many of the students surveyed are
enrolled in at least two of the three areas?
d) How many of the students
survey are enrolled in a humanities course?
Flawed Data
A
sociologist surveyed 100 college students and came up with these data:
72 own cars
60 own stereos
20 own both items.
On seeing
these results, another sociologist claimed that the doing the survey was either
a fraud or incompetent (or both). Is
this correct? Why?