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Counting a group from not-favourite colour totals

Question

Everyone in a group has exactly one favourite colour among red, blue, yellow and green. The numbers of people whose favourite is not red, not blue, not yellow and not green are 1515, 2323, 2020 and 1717 respectively. How many people are in the group?

Short answer

25. Each person is counted in exactly three of the four "not" totals, so 3N=15+23+20+17=753N=15+23+20+17=75 and N=25N=25.

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