2011 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 6
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Problem
In a town of adults, every adult owns a car, motorcycle, or both. If adults own cars and adults own motorcycles, how many of the car owners do not own a motorcycle?
Solution 1
By PIE, the number of adults who own both cars and motorcycles is Out of the car owners, of them own motorcycles and of them don't.
Solution 2
There are total adults, and own a motorcycle. The number of adults that don't own a motorcycle is . Since everyone owns a car or motorcycle and one who doesn't own a motorcycle owns a car, the answer is .
Solution 3 (answer choices)
Clearly, we can eliminate answer choice , for at least one adult owns motorcycles. It is also fairly obvious that the answer must be in the 300 range, giving us
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