### Takeaway Time

Pizza, Indian or Chinese takeaway? If everyone liked at least one, how many only liked Indian?

# One or Both

##### Age 14 to 16 ShortChallenge Level

Using trial and scaling
Imagine that 100 pupils take the exam. So 70 pupils got question one right and 60 pupils got question 2 right, as shown in the diagram.

That would give a total of 130 pupils, which is 30 too many, so 30 must have been counted twice (all of the pupils have been counted because noone got both questions wrong). They must be in the 'overlap' - they got both questions correct:

But 9 people got both questions right, so there should only be 9 in the overlap, not 30.

What if we started with 50 pupils instead? Then 60% is 30 and 70% is 35:

30 + 35 = 65 so there must be 15 people in the overlap:

But 15 is still too many.

When we halved the number of pupils, the numbers in the Venn diagram all halved. If we scale by a different number, the numbers in the Venn diagram will scale by that number as well, becase they come from percentages. So we need to scale from 15 to 9 to get 9 in the overlap.

To scale from 15 to 9, you divide by 5 and multiply by 3.

So to scale the total number of pupils from 50, you divide by 5 and multiply by 3 - which gives 30.

Just to check, (20$\div$5)$\times$3 = 12 and 9 + 9 + 12 = 30.

Working in percentages
60% got question one correct and 70% got question two correct, but 60% + 70% = 130%, so some pupils must have been counted twice. 30% of pupils must have been counted twice, so those pupils must be in the 'overlap' - they correctly answered both questions (all of the pupils have been counted because noone got both questions wrong).

But we know 9 pupils correctly answered both questions - so 9 pupils is the same as 30% of pupils.

Dividing by 3, this means that 3 pupils is the same as 10% of pupils, so 30 pupils is the same as 100% of pupils - so there are 30 pupils in total.

Working out the parts not in each circle