Sunday 30 November 2014

Mathematics and Literature



          Recently a publishing company which specializes in mathematical books advertised the job opening of an assistant editor. The response was good. One hundred people applied for the position. The company, however, wanted to make their selection from the applicants who had some training in both mathematics and literature.

        Out of one hundred applicants the company found that 10 of them had no training in mathematics and no training in literature, 70 of them had got mathematical training and 82 had got training in literature.

        How many applicants had got training in both mathematics and literature?

Answer:   ten applicants had neither mathematics nor literature training. So, we can now concentrate on the remaining 90 applicants. Of the 90 .twenty had got no mathematics training and eight had got no –literary training.
That leaves us with a remainder of 62 who have had training in both literature and mathematics.

             
                        

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