In the following Venn diagram the rectangle represents the number of poets, the triangle represents the number of novelists and the circle represents writers.
How many people are writers but not poets?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → 5
Writers are the numbers inside the circle; those who are not poets lie outside the rectangle. The regions 1, 2 and 6 of the circle are inside the rectangle, so they are poets. The only numbered part of the circle below the rectangle is region 5, shaded below.
Writers but not poets \(=\) 5