Question 5
EasyOriginal questionWhich diagram best represents the relationship among Boys, Students and Girls?
Show the answer and explanation
CorrectNot quiteAnswer D
Correct answer: D
Explanation
No boy is a girl: Boys and Girls are separate circles.
Some boys are students and some are not (a boy who has left school): Boys overlaps Students. The same is true of Girls.
So the picture is two separate circles, each overlapping a third circle.
Worth noting
Two separate circles inside a larger circle is wrong for two reasons: not every boy or girl is a student, and some students are neither boys nor girls (adult students at a college, for example). Either fact is enough to rule it out.
- Concept
- Deciding inside, apart or overlap for each pair of classes
- Typical timeTypical
- 40 s
- Your timeYours
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