SET THEORY-1

Q-1. If A={a,b,c} how man subsets can A have?

Q-2. If A={a,a,a,b,b,c} how man subsets can A

have?
 Venn Diagram

Q-3. How many cleared both cutoff

Q-4. How many cleared atleast cutoff?

Q-5. How many could not clear quant cutoff?

Q-6. How many cleared only Quant cutoff?

Q-7. did not clear any cut off?

Q-8. missed at least one cut off

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 SUM & UNION
Q-9. A survey shows that 41%,35% and 60% of the students
play cricket,football and volleyball respectively.27% students
play exactly two of the three games and 3% play none.What
percentage of students play all the three games.
40% b) 6% c) 9% d) none
Q-10. In a group of children ,770 children like like at most
two of the three ice cream flavours Vanilla, Chocolate
and Butter scotch.40 children like none of three
flavours.310 like vanilla,370 like butter scotch and 320
like chocolate.760 like at least one of the three
flavours.How many children like exactly one of the three
flavours?
• 570 b) 460 c) 340 d) 550
Directions for questions:
In a school of 600 students,350 students do not play
hockey.330 students do not play cricket and 310 students
do not play football.470 students play cricket or football,
430 students play football or hockey and 450 students
play hockey or cricket.30 students do not play any of the
three games.
Q-12. How many students play Football and Hockey?
Q-13. How many students play only Football?
Q-14. How many students play only cricket and Hockey?
Q-15. How many students play all the three games?
Q-16. How many students play only cricket?
Q-17. A total of 335 people attended Shivjayanti Samaroh event
in the three years 2014,2015 and 2016, such that each person
attended the event at least in one of the three years.Of the
135 people who attended the event 2014,35 attended the
event in the immediate next year also.Of the 175 people who
attended the event in 2016,130 people did not attend the
event in the previous year i.e.2015 and 90 people did not
attend the event in any year other than 2016 and 55 people,
out of these 175 people, attended the function in the year
2014 also. How many people attended the functions in exactly
two consecutive years.
 100 applicants appeared for aptitude test having 2
sections Quants and English.76 students cleared Quant
cutoff and 83 cleared English cutoff.

Q-18. How many cleared both cutoff.

Q-19. How many definitely cleared both cutoff.

Q-20. At max how many cleared both cutoff?

Q-21. How many definitely cleared exactly one cutoff?

Directions for questions :
If in a group of people,40% like football & 50% like cricket.Find
the maximum and minimum number of people for the
following:
Q-22. Who likes only football.
Q-23. Who likes only cricket.
Q-24. Who likes neither football nor cricket.
Q-25. Who likes both football and cricket.
Q-26. Who likes atleast one of football or cricket.
Directions for questions:
In a locality having 150 households, 100 subscribes to Times of
India, 30 subscribe to Indian Express and 75 subscribes to The
Hindu. Find the following:
Q-27. The minimum number of households subscribing to
Times of India and The Hindu

Q-28. The minimum number of households subscribing to The

Times Of India and The Indian Express

Q-29. The minimum number of households who subscribes to

neither Indian Express nor The Hindu
Directions for questions:
600 applicants appeared for mock CAT aptitude test having
3 sections Quants ,English and DI.280 students cleared
Quant cutoff, 320 cleared English cutoff and 240 cleared
DI cutoff.
Also, number of students clearing both Quants and English
cutoff were equal to number of students clearing English
and DI cutoff, which in turn equal to number of students
clearing both Quants and DI cutoff = 140.Find minimum
and maximum number of students clearing

Q-30. exactly one subject

Q-31. exactly 2 subject
Q-32. exactly 3 subject
Directions for questions 12 to 13:
Out of 210 interviews in IIM-A,105 CAT crackers were offered tea
by the interview panel,50 were offered biscuits and 56 were
offered toffees.32 CAT crackers were offered tea and biscuits,
30 were offered biscuits and toffees, and 45 were offered
toffees and tea.What is the
Q-33. Maximum and minimum number of CAT crackers who
were offered all three snacks?

Q-34. Maximum and minimum number of CAT crackers who

were offered at leastone snack?
 When Total is given

Direction for the following 2 (two) items:

In a class of 60, 12 cannot speak Enlish, 48 can speak German and the
class is equally divided among those who can speak French and
those who cannot.
Q-38. What is he maximum number of students who can speak all
three languages?
(a) 50 (b) 30 (c) 10 (d) 33

Q-39. What is the minimum number of students who can speak all
three languages?
(a) 30 (b) 10 (c) 6 (d) 4
Q-40. In a group of people 98% like whiskey,97% like vodka,93%
like beer,90% like wine,87% like rum and 83% like scotch.If
every people like atleast one drink, then find the minimum
number of people who like all the drinks.
Q-41. In a Grand Prix, 90% of drivers faced tyre problems,
80% of the drivers faced engine problems, 75% of drivers
faced steering problems, and 70% of the drivers faced
transmission problems. Find the minimum percentage of
drivers who faced all the four problems.

Q-42. In the above question, if it is known that 10 % of the

drivers faced none of the problems, what would have
been the answers to the above questions.
Q-43. According to a survey, at least 70% people like apples, at
least 75% like bananas and at least 80% like cherries.What is
the minimum percentage of people who like all three?
15% b) 20% c) 25% d) Nota
Q-44. There are three electives and at least one elective has to
be selected.75% opted for marketing,62% opted for finance
and 83% for HR.What is the maximum number of students
that can specialize in all three?
Q-45. In a college, where every student follows at least one of
the three activities- drama, sports or arts- 65% follow drama,
86% follow sports and 57% follow arts.What can be maximum
and minimum percentage of students who follow all three
activities
Directions for questions:
• In a group of people 80% like Coffe,70% like
Tea,60% like Green Tea.Find the maximum and
minimum number of people for the following:
• Q-46. Who like exactly one drink
• Q-47. Who like exactly 2 drink
• Q-48. Who like exactly 3 drink
•
• Directions for questions :
• In a group of people 80% like Coffee,70% like
Tea,60% like Green Tea.If every people like
atleast one drink, then find the maximum and
minimum number of people for the following:
• Q-49. Who like exactly one drink
• Q-50. Who like exactly 2 drink
• Q-51. Who like exactly 3 drink
• Directions for questions:
• In a school of 100 students each of them play at least one
sport among cricket,football,volleyball,basketball,hockey and
tennis.It is known that exactly 90 play cricket,80 play football,70
play hockey,60 play basketball,40 play volleyball and 10 play
tennis.
• Q-52. What is the maximum number of students who
play exactly four of the six games.?
• Q-53. What is the maximum number of students who
play exactly five of the six games.
• Q-54. In a class of 50 students, 25 passed in
physics,27 in maths, 29 passed in chemistry,33
in biology and 35 in geography, what is the
maximum number of students passed in at
least 3 subjects.
• Q-55. Mr.Sakharam who is doing a project on racial
features, observed that in his class of 130 students, 60 had
black eyes,50 had an aquiline nose, 45 had a broad forehead
and 90 had exactly one of the three features. What are
maximum students who had at least two of the three
features?
• 26 b)32 c)34 d) 38
Directions for questions :
There are 200 students in a class.Each student is a member of at
least one of the clubs- Puneri Paltan,Mumbai misal, Dabang
delhi, Patna pirates.
Q-58. If each club has 100 students, then the number of
students who are members of all the four clubs is at most?
Q-59. If each club has 120 students, then the number of
students who are members of all the at most two clubs is at
least.?
Q-60. If each club has 140 students, then the number of
students who are members of at least three clubs is at least?
Directions for questions :
In IIM-GURUKUL, out of four subjects which are taught, Each
student like atleast one subject. 91% like V.A, 74% like D.I, 93%
like L.R, 79% like Q.A.
Q-61. Find the maximum percentage of students who like Exactly
3 subjects?
• a. 37% b. 63% c. 52% d. 74%
Q-62. Find maximum percentage of students who like atmost
two subjects?
• A.26% B. 21% C. 31% D. 37
Q-63. Find maximum no. of students who like atmost one
subject?
• a. 100% B. 16% C. 52% D. 76%
Directions for questions:
• In the class of 2014 in IIM-X,there were 120 students.The following were
the six subjects in the first term,Marketing Management-
1(MM1),Behavioural Sciences-1(BS1),Managerial Statistics-1(M1),Financial
A ccounting-1 (FC-1),Indian Business History(IH) and Strategic Management
(ST).All the students appeared in the exams for all the six subjects.Table 1
give the grades obtained by the students in various subjects in their 1st
term of PGDM.
Q-64. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in all the six
subjects is atmost
• 57 b)26 c)50 d) 100
Q-65. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in all the six
subjects is at least
• 0 b) 12 c) 50 d) none of these
Q-66. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in atleast two of
the six subjects is at least
• 44 b) 24 c) 96 d) none of these
Q-67. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in atmost three of
the six subjects is at least
• 44 b) 28 c) 36 d) none of these
Q-68. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in atmost two of
the six subjects is atmost
• 96 b) 45 c) 72 d) none of these
Q-69. The number of students who scored Bs (B+ and B) in atleast three of
the six subjects is atmost
• 96 b) 84 c) 112 d) none of these
• Directions for questions :
• In a class of 200 students, half the class enrolled for exactly one of the
three activities. Swimming,horse riding and dancing. Total enrolments
were 80 in swimming,75 in horse riding and 60 in dancing from the class.
Number of students who enrolled for horse riding and swimming only was
10 more than the number of students who enrolled for horse riding and
dancing only.
Q-70. Find the minimum possible number of students who enrolled for
atleast one of the three activities.
• 143 b)141 c)142 d)144
Q-71. Find the maximum possible number of students who enrolled for
exactly 2 activities?
• 56 b)57 c)58 d)55
• Directions for questions :
• A group of 310 tourists from Switzerland, visited Vishakhapatnam in the
month of January 2015. 150 visited Kailash Giri, 170 visited Vuda park and
130 visited the RK beach. 25 of them visited all the three places. The
number of tourists, who visited exactly two out of the three, is ten times as
many as those who have not visited any of the places.
Q-71. How many tourists visited not more than one place?
• 185 b. 230 c. 175 d. 215
Q-72. If the number of tourists who visited at least one of the two places,
Vuda Park and RK beach is 240, then how may tourists visited only Kailash
Giri?
• 51 b. 60 c. 49 d. 45
Q-73. If the number of tourists who visited at least one of the two places,
Vuda Park and RK beach is 240, then how may tourists visited exactly one of
the two places, Vuda Park and RK beach?
• 152 b. 115 c. 152 d. 160