In a freshman class of 3500 students at a particular college, 20000 are taking either a history of English class their first semester. Of these 2000 students, 1300 are taking both a history class and an English class, and 375 are taking only a history class.
Draw a Venn diagram to represent this information.
We are then given a rectangular box with the two interlaced circles.
I labeled one circle History and put 375 in that. The other circle I labeled English and put 325 in that (I got that from adding 1300 that take both classes and 375 that take History only. I added those two and subtracted from 2000) So the number of students that take English is 325. In the middle of the Venn diagram is 1300 because that is the number of students that take both History and English.
I'm not sure if I am on the right track and then what do I do with the rectangle? Do I have to put the 3500 inside there to represent the entire freshman class? Are there any other labels that are necessary?
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