StatisticsYears 10–11Statistics & Probability

Venn diagrams and set notation

Use Venn diagrams to represent sets and calculate probabilities using set notation

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a bag of 10 sweets: 5 are strawberry 🍓, 3 are lemon 🍋, and 2 are both flavours. A Venn diagram sorts them into circles!

  2. 2

    If a sweet is both strawberry AND lemon, where does it go in the Venn diagram?

  3. 3

    Sort these 8 shapes into the Venn diagram: red shapes 🔴 and triangles 🔺. Drag each shape to the right spot.

  4. 4

    Let's do one together: A class has 20 students. 12 play football ⚽, 8 play tennis 🎾, and 4 play both. How many play only football?

  5. 5

    In that example, how many students play only tennis?

  6. 6

    A Venn diagram shows set A = {1, 2, 3, 4} and set B = {3, 4, 5, 6}. Which numbers go in the overlap?

  7. 7

    What does the overlap in a Venn diagram show?

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