Completing Incomplete Tables - PSAT Math

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A teacher at a high school conducted a survey of seniors and found that students owned a laptop and of those students also had a car. There were students that did not have a laptop, but owned a car. Last, they found that students did not own a laptop nor a car. Given this information, how many students had a laptop, but did not own a car?

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To help answer this question, we can construct a two-way table and fill in our known quantities from the question.

The columns of the table will represent the students who have a laptop or do not have a laptop and the rows will contain the students who have a car or do not have a car. The first bit of information that we were given from the question was that students had a laptop; therefore, needs to go in the "laptop" column as the row total. Next, we were told that of those students, owned a car; therefore, we need to put in the "laptop" column and in the "car" row. Then, we were told that students do not own a laptop, but own a car, so we need to put in the "no laptop" column and the "car" row. Finally, we were told that students do not have a laptop or a car, so needs to go in the "no laptop" column and "no car" row. If done correctly, you should create a table similar to the following:

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Our question asked how many students have a laptop, but do not own have a car. We can take the total number of students that own a lap top, , and subtract the number of students who have a car,

This means that students who have a laptop, don't have a car.

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