Answer :
Final answer:
The percentage of the population in the town that does not read 'The Times of India' or 'The Hindustan Times' is 16%. This is found by calculating the unique newspaper readers and then subtracting from the total population before converting to a percentage. Therefore the correct option A.
Explanation:
The question is asking us to find the percentage of the town's population that does not read either 'The Times of India' or 'The Hindustan Times'.
To solve this, we first need to calculate the total number of people who read at least one of the newspapers. Since there are 2,500 people who read both, we must adjust our numbers to avoid double-counting them.
First, we add the number of readers for both newspapers: 13,000 (The Times of India) + 10,500 (The Hindustan Times) = 23,500.
However, since 2,500 people read both, they are included in both numbers, we should subtract them once to get the unique number of readers: 23,500 - 2,500 = 21,000.
Now we subtract that number from the total population to find the number of people who read neither newspaper: 25,000 (total population) - 21,000 (unique newspaper readers) = 4,000.
Finally, to find the percentage, we divide the number of non-readers by the total population and multiply by 100: (4,000 / 25,000) * 100 = 16%.
Therefore, the percentage of the population who read neither of these newspapers is 16%, which corresponds to option A.
