Question

ILL GIVE BRAINLIEST!!! At Beaumont High School, there are 12 players on the baseball team. All 12 players are taking at least one of biology or chemistry. If 7 players are taking biology and 2 players are taking both sciences, how many players are taking chemistry?

Answer 1

Answer:

27

Let's call the number of students taking chemistry x which makes the biology students 3x. Since the overlap is 4 the amount of students who take chemistry only or biology only is x - 4 and 3x - 4 respectively therefore we can write:

x - 4 + 3x - 4 + 4 = 32

4x - 4 = 32

4x = 36

x = 9

Since x = 9, the amount of biology students is 3x which is 3 * 9 = 27.