Select the Venn diagram that best represents the relationship between the following classes.
Doctors, Women, Mothers
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) →
In a Venn diagram two circles overlap when some members belong to both classes, one circle lies inside another when every member of the first belongs to the second, and circles stay apart when the classes have no common member.
Every mother is a woman, so the mother circle lies inside the circle of women
Some women are doctors and some doctors are men, so the doctor circle overlaps the circle of women and also goes outside it
Some mothers are doctors and some are not, so the doctor circle also cuts into the mother circle
A circle inside a larger one, with a third circle crossing both, as in Option (4)
