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In a group of 45 persons, 25 drink tea but not coffee, while 32 drink tea. How many people drink coffee but not tea?
(A) 12
(B) 13
(C) 15
(D) 20

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Hint: For answering this question we will find the total number of persons who drink coffee but not tea from the given information that is the total number of people present is 45 and the total number of people who drink tea is 32. So if we subtract the total number of people who drink tea from the total number of people present we will have the total number of people who drink coffee but not tea.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Now considering the question we have the information stating the total number of persons present in the group is 45 and the number of persons who drink tea but not coffee is 25 and the total number of people who drink tea is 32.
Let us assume the number of people who drink both coffee and tea at x.
Then we will have a Venn diagram representing this information as follows:

And now we can derive the number of people who drink both coffee and tea assumed as x and tea by subtracting the number of people who drink tea but not the coffee that is given as 25 from the total number of people who drink tea which is given as 32 this can be given mathematically as
 x=3225x=7 .
Since we have the total number of people present is 45 and the total number of people who drink tea is 32 so the number of people who drink coffee only will be 4532=13.
Therefore we can conclude that the total number of persons who drink coffee but not tea is 13.
Hence option B is correct.

Note: While answering questions of this type we should take care of the calculations. If we had made a mistake during the calculations and taken the difference between the total number of people present that is 45 and the total number of people who drink tea that is 32 as 4532=12 which will imply us to mark option A as correct which is wrong.