of 60 children , 30 are happy , 10 are sad , and 20 are neither happy nor sad . there are 16 boys and 44 girls . if there are 6 happy boys and 4 sad girls , how many boys are neither happy nor sad ?
venn diagrams are useful for multiple values of a single variable e . g . state of mind - happy / sad / neither . when you have two or more variables such as here where you have gender - boy / girl too , it becomes unwieldy . in this case , either use the table or logic . table method is shown above ; here is how you will use logic : there are 6 happy boys . there are 4 sad girls but total 10 sad children . so rest 6 sad children must be sad boys . we have 6 happy boys and 6 sad boys . total we have 16 boys . so 16 - 6 - 6 = 4 boys must be neither happy nor sad . answer ( b )
subtract(subtract(16, subtract(10, 4)), 6)