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Date May 2018 Marks available 2 Reference code 18M.1.SL.TZ1.T_10
Level Standard Level Paper Paper 1 (with calculator from previous syllabus) Time zone Time zone 1
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Question

A group of 60 sports enthusiasts visited the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic games to watch a variety of sporting events.

The most popular sports were snowboarding (S), figure skating (F) and ice hockey (H).

For this group of 60 people:

4 did not watch any of the most popular sports,
x watched all three of the most popular sports,
9 watched snowboarding only,
11 watched figure skating only,
15 watched ice hockey only,
7 watched snowboarding and figure skating,
13 watched figure skating and ice hockey,
11 watched snowboarding and ice hockey.

Find the value of x.

Markscheme

4 + 9 + 11 + 15 + x + ( 7 x ) + ( 11 x ) + ( 13 x ) = 60      (M1)

Note: Award (M1) for equating the sum of at least seven of the entries in their Venn diagram to 60.

( x = ) 5      (A1)(ft) (C2)

Note: Follow through from part (a), but only if answer is positive.

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Syllabus sections

Topic 4—Statistics and probability » SL 4.6—Combined, mutually exclusive, conditional, independence, prob diagrams
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