Overlapping Sets Gre

Non numerical sets sets in which the members are people or cars or companies are the stuff of tricky word problems.

Overlapping sets gre. Practice problems on overlapping sets with target test prep experts scott woodbury stewart and jeffrey miller in this 40 minute webinar covering basic. I wrote a few weeks ago that overlapping sets are a hot gmat topic. Ordinarily there s nothing particular challenging if there s only one set. How to beat overlapping sets gmat problems duration.

In a class 40 of the students enrolled for math and 70 enrolled for economics. Dominate the gre 27 304 views. Today we will look at all of the various venn diagram formulas floating around on three overlapping sets. Numerical sets can be handled with statistical calculations.

Group1 and group2 are interchangeable basically g1 g2 is the sum of all of the people who do one or the other but that sum double counts the number who do both. Total group1 group2 both neither in the example above 40 is total 25 is group1 12 is group2 and 8 is both. The formula i use is this. Chipotle please and for these situations the familiar double set matrix approach works best.

Most of these are self explanatory but we will look into the details of the less commonly known three set venn formulas. Challenging gre sets word problem max min variation duration. Most overlapping sets on the gmat have two distinct groups. If 15 of the students enrolled for both math and economics what of the students of the class did not enroll for either of the two subjects.

Students take french and or spanish or neither pianists play either classical and or jazz or neither people like either qdoba and or baja fresh definitely neither. In a previous post we saw how to solve three overlapping sets questions using venn diagrams. Gre is a registered. Mathematical reasoning without a lot of nuts and bolts arithmetic.

Three overlapping sets november 08 2007. Gre overlapping sets problems webinar. The overlapping sets formula.