Every Wednesday is salad bar day at Ashley's school. The most popular ingredients are cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, and shredded carrot. Last Wednesday, out of the 27 students in Ashley's class-

14 took carrot
13 took cucumber
16 took tomato
8 took cucumber and tomato
9 took tomato and carrot
7 took carrot and cucumber
and 5 put all three on their salads.

How many students took none of these?
How many students did not take carrot?

1 answer

Use a Venn diagram, put in all the data values, and your answers can just be read from the diagram