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4.
A
guidance counselor is planning schedules for 30 students. Sixteen
students say they want to take French, 16 want to take Spanish, and 11
want to take Latin. Five say they want to take both French and
Latin, and of these, 3 wanted to take Spanish as well. Five want
only Latin, and 8 want only Spanish. How many students want French
only?
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Start with the
Latin circle. You have sufficient information to determine how
many students want both Latin and Spanish (1).
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Using this new
information, you can work within the Spanish circle to determine how
many students want both Spanish and French (4).
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Using this new
information, you can work within the French circle to determine how
many students want French only (7).
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The last step
could be represented algebraically as
x + 4 + 3 + 2 + 5
+ 8 + 1 = 30
x + 23 = 30
x = 7

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