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 , , and respectively. How many people are in the group?
Short answer
25. Each person is counted in exactly three of the four "not" totals, so and .
Adapted from OpenQuant; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
See the hint and the full worked solution in the question bank (free account).
Open the worked solution