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Homework Statement
A study was done to determine the efficacy of three different drugs – A, B, and C – in relieving headache pain. Over the period covered by the study, 50 subjects were given the chance to use all three drugs. The following results were obtained:
21 reported relief from drug A
21 reported relief from drug B
31 reported relief from drug C
9 reported relief from both drugs A and B
14 reported relief from both drugs A and C
15 reported relief from both drugs B and C
41 reported relief from at least one of the drugs.
b. How many people got relief from none of the drugs?
c. How many people got relief from all three drugs?
d. How many people got relief from A only?
e. Fill in the full Venn diagram for this data.
The Attempt at a Solution
I drew a venn diagram,running into an issue though.
21 people reported relief from drug A, 9 reported relief from A and B and 14 report relief from A and C. so ##A \cap B = 9; A \cap C = 14## but A only has 21, 21 -14-9 = -2 that's not yet counting ##A \cap B \cap C##
similarly for B, B has 21 reports of relief and ## B \cap A =9; B \cap C =15## so 21 - 15 -9 = -3
C seems to have no issue so far, it'll have 2 people that potentially only had relief from C
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