I'm having trouble with a seemingly simple problem in Math and I need some help with it. The problem states:
A hospital is doing a treatment research on 50 volunteers. Of those, some have had a few reactions: 12 have had headaches, 8 felt nausea and 4 had headaches and nausea. How many volunteers had headaches and not nausea? How many volunteers didn't feel neither (headache and nausea simultaneously)?
It's not a homework as I'm not in school anymore but studying by myself to try my country's equivalent of the SAT to get into college.
So, I know that my Universe (U) in this case is 50. I know the sets (let's say A and B) are A={12}, B={8} and A∩B={4}, so the number of volunteers that had only headaches exclusively is 8 (12 - 4 people that also had nausea) but i can't figure out the number of volunteers that haven't had neither.
I've tried putting together a simple equation to find the number: 12 volunteers that felt headache + 8 that felt nausea + x people that felt neither = 50 that will amount to x=30 volunteers but the book (without explaining why) says the correct answer is 34.
I've tried breaking the problem down by its inquiries, writing them one by one (which I won't do here to not extend the question) and it seems to be a simple thing, really, and that what I've done is correct.
Is the book wrong (unlikely)? Is my solution correct? How should I go about when solving this problem?
headache and no nausea = 12 - 4
nausea and no heaqdache = 8 - 4
neither = 50 - (12 + 8 - 4) = 34