LR – Maximum Minimum Concept

CONCEPT OF MAXIMUM OR MINIMUM

If out of N people, a read TOI, b read IE and c read HT, then

Minimum number of people reading TOI and IE is a + b – N and so on for other

combination of two newspaper.

The above property can be used repetitively to find the minimum number of people
reading all the newspaper, as follows: Since minimum number of people reading TOI and
IE is a + b – N, say equal to m; then minimum number of people reading all (TOI & IE) and
HT i.e. all three newspaper is m + c – N.

Maximum number of people reading all three is the maximum of a, b and c. If N, instead
of being the total number of people, is the number of people reading atleast one of the
newspaper, the maximum number of people reading all three newspaper is (a + b + c –
N)/2

While solving problems in Work and which involving comparison of teams, it would pay to
consider all members of the team in terms of the least efficient guy, e.g. (from Mock 2): A,
B, C, D, E and F can complete a piece of work working independently in 60, 30, 20, 15, 12
and 10 days respectively. Now these 6 people make two teams, one of 2 player and other
of 4 player such that one team takes twice the time to complete the work as compared to
other team.

The problem can be solved by considering B = 2A, C = 3A, D = 4A, E = 5A and F = 6A. Thus
all together is equivalent to a team of A + 2A + 3A + 4A + 5A + 6A = 21A. Thus one team
should consists of 7A and other team of 14A

Type 1. In a Business School there are 3 electives and atleast one elective is
compulsory to opt.75% students opted for Marketing, 62% students opted for Finance
and 88% students opted for HR. A student can have dual or triple specialization.

(a) What is the minimum number of students that are specialize in all three streams?
(b) What is the maximum number of students that can specialize in all three streams?

SOLUTION (a) 75% students opted for Marketing, it means atleast 25% students
opted for HR or Finance or HR and Finance both.
Similarly atleast 12%students opted for Marketing or Finance or Marketing and
Finance both.

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Again atleast 38% students opted for Marketing or HR or Marketing and HR both.
∴ 25+12+38=75%

It means that if there is no intersection in these three courses, 75% would be

maximum number of students in M,H,F alone or (M H), (M F), (H F).
Thus it gives atleast 25% = (100-75) students in all 3 departments.

(a) (75-x)+(88-x)+(62-x)+x=100 ⟹ x62.5%

Type 2. In a Business school there are 3 electives offered to the students, where
students have a choice of not choosing any electives.

70% students opted for Marketing, 60% students opted for HR and 50% students
opted for-Finance. 30% students opted for Marketing and HR both, 40% opted for HR
and Finance both, 20% opted for Marketing and Finance both.

(a) What is the minimum number of students opted for all 3 electives?

(b) What is the maximum number of students opted for

all 3 electives?

SOLUTION Total number of students =70+(x-10)+(40-x)+(x-10)=90+x

(a) The minimum value of x so that none of the categories becomes negative =10
(b) The maximum value of x so that none of the categories becomes negative = 20

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Type 3. In a hostel there are 250'students. 120 watch news channels, 80 watch
sports channels and 90 watch music channels. Each channel telecasts the content as
per their nature. 50 students watch both news and sports channel 60 students watch
both sports and music channel and 65 students watch both news and music channels.

(a) What is the minimum number of students who watch atleast one of the given
channel?
(b) What is the maximum number of students who watch atleast one of the given
channels?
(c) What is the minimum number of students who watch all the three types of
channels?
(d) What is the maximum number of students who watch all the three types of
channels?

SOLUTION Since the number of students cannot be negative

∴ x – 30 ≥ 0
x – 35 ≥ 0
50 – x ≥ 0
Also 60 - x ≥ 0
65 - x ≥ 0

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=120+(x – 30)+(60 – x) +(x – 35)= 115+x

(a) Minimum number of students watching atleast one channel = 115+35=150

(b) Maximum number of students watching atleast one channel = 115+3550=165
(c) Minimum number of students watching all the 3 channels = 35
(d) Maximum number of students watching all the 3 channels = 35

In a school there are 200 students. 100 play cricket, 50 play hockey & 60 play basket ball.
30 play both Cricket & Hockey, 35 play both Hockey & Basket Ball & 45 play both Basket
Ball & Cricket

(a) All 3 games

(b) What is maximum no of Students who play at least 1 game
(c) Minimum who play all 3
(d) Minimum no of students who play at least 1 game

(a) 30
(b) 130
(c) 20
(d) 120

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