EXERCISE 1 (Board level)

1.01. Write the set A   x : x is an integer,  1  x  4 in roster form.

1.02. Write the set B  3,9,27,81 in set-builder form.

1.03. Is the collection of all the months of a year beginning with letter ' M ' a set ?
1.04. Is the collection of difficult topics in Mathematics a set ?
1.05. What kind of set is A   x : x  N and 3  x  4 ?

1.06. What kind of set is B   x : x  N and x 2  x ?

1.07. What kind of set is the set of all the point on the circumference of a circle ?
1.08. What kind of set is B   x : x  N and x is an even prime number ?
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1.09. Let A  2, 2 and B  x : x  4, x  Z . Is A  B ?

1.10. Write  5,9 in set-builder form.

1.11. Write  x : x  R, 3  x  7 as interval.

1.12. Let A  1, 2,3 . How many elements does power set of A contain ?

1.13. Write all the possible subsets of A  5, 6 .

1.14. If A  Set of letters of the word ‘DELHI’ and B = the set of letters the words ‘DOLL’ find A  B.
1.15. If A  Set of letters of the word ‘DELHI’ and B = the set of letters the words ‘DOLL’ find A  B.
1.16. If A  Set of letters of the word ‘DELHI’ and B = the set of letters the words ‘DOLL’ find A  B.
1.17. Are sets A  1, 2,3, 4 , B   x : x  N and 5  x  7 disjoint ?
1.18. Which set is represented by the following figure ?

1.19. Which set is represented by the following figure ?

1.20. If A  1,3,5,7,11,13,15,17 and B  2, 4,6,8,...,18 and U  1, 2, 3,...,18 , find

A    A  B   B  .

1.21. Two sets ' A ' and ' B ' are such that n  A   10, n  B   15, n  A  B   21. Find n  A  B  and n  A  B  .

1.22. Verify A   B  C    A  B    A  C  for A  1, 2, 4,5 , B  2,3,5, 6 , C  4,5, 6,7 .

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1.23. If U  1, 2, 3,..., 24 , A   x : xis prime andx  10 and B   x : x is a factor of 24 , verify

(a) A  B  A  B (b)  A  B   A  B (c)  A  B   A  B

1.24. Find sets A, B, C such that A  B, B  C and A  C are non-empty sets and A  B  C   .
1.25. For any sets ' A ' and ' B ' prove that
(a)  A  B    A  B   A (b) A   B  A    A  B 

1.26. On the real axis, If A   0,3 and B   2, 6 , then find A.

1.27. On the real axis, If A   0,3 and B   2,6 , then find A  B.

1.28. On the real axis, If A   0,3 and B   2,6 , then find A  B.

1.29. On the real axis, If A   0,3 and B   2, 6 , then find A  B.

1.30. In a survey of 450 people, it was found that 110 play cricket, 160 play tennis and 70 play both cricket as
well as tennis. How many play neither cricket nor tennis ?
1.31. In a group of students, 225 students know French, 100 know Spanish and 45 know both. Each student
know either French or Spanish. How many students are there in the group ?
1.32. For all set A, B, C , is  A  B   C  A   B  C  ?

1.33. Two sets ' A ' and ' B ' are such that n  A  B   21, n  A  B   9, n  A  B   7, find n  A  B  .
1.34. Out of 100 families it was found that 40 families buy newspaper A, 20 families buy newspaper B and
10 families buy newspaper C. 5 families buy A and B, 3 buy B and C and 4 buy A and C. If 2
families buy all the three newspapers, find the number of families which buy
(a) only A (b) only B (c) none of A, B, C
(d) exactly two newspapers (e) exactly one newspaper (f) A and C but not B
(g) at least one of A, B, C
1.35. In a group of 84 persons, each plays at least one game out of tennis, badminton and cricket.
28 of them play cricket, 40 play tennis and 48 play badminton. If 6 play both cricket and badminton and
4 play tennis and badminton and no one plays all the three games, find the number of persons who play
cricket but not tennis.
1.36. In a class, 18 students took Physics, 23 students took Chemistry and 24 students took Mathematics, 12
took both Physics and Chemistry and 11 took both Physics and Mathematics. If 6 students offered all
the three subjects, find :
(a) the total number of students.
(b) how many took Maths but not Chemistry.
(c) how many took exactly one of the three subjects.
1.37. Set A has ' m ' elements and set B has ' n ' elements. If the number of subsets of set A is 56 more than
the number of subsets of set B , find ' m ' and ' n '.
1.38. Using properties of sets and their complements prove that
(a)  A  B    A  B   A (b) A   A  B   A  B

(c)  A  B   C   A  C    B  C  (d) A   B  C    A  B    A  C 

(e) A   B  C    A  B    A  C 
1.39. If A is the set of all divisors of the number 15. B is the set of prime numbers smaller than 10 and C is
the set of even number smaller than 9, then find  A  C   B.

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1.40. Survey show that 63% people watch news channel A whereas 76% people watch news channel B.
If x% of people watch both news channels. then prove that 39  x  63.
1.41. From 50 students taking examination in Mathematics, Physics and chemistry, each of the student has
passed in at least one of the subject, 37 passes Mathematics, 24 Physics and 43 chemistry. At most 19
passed Mathematics and Physics, almost 29 Mathematics and chemistry and at most 20 Physics and
chemistry. What is the largest passible number that could have passed in all the subjects?

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1.42. If X  x : x  4n  3n  1, n  N and Y   y : y  9  n  1 , n  N  . Find X  Y .

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 EXERCISE 3 (WBJEE)
3.01. If A   x, y , then the power set of A is : [2006]

(A)  x y , y x  (B)  , x, y (C)  ,  x , 2 y (D)  ,  x ,  y ,  x, y

3.02. Three sets A, B, C are such that A  B  C and B  C  A, then [2008]
(A) A  B (B) B  A (C) A  B (D) A  B
3.03. For any two sets A and B, A   A  B   [2009]
(A) B (B) A  B (C) A  B (D) A  B 
3.04. There are 100 students in a class. In an examination, 50 of them failed in Mathematics, 45 failed in
Physics, 40 failed in Biology and 32 failed in exactly two of the three subjects. Then, the number of
students failing in all the three subjects [2012]
(A) is 12 (B) is 4 (C) is 2 (D) can’t be determined
3.05. There is a group of 265 persons who like either singing or dancing or painting. In this group 200 like
singing, 110 like dancing and 55 like painting. If 60 persons like both singing and dancing, 30 like
both singing and painting and 10 like all three activities, then the number of persons who like only
dancing and painting is persons who like only dancing and painting is [2014]
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40

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 EXERCISE 4 (AIEEE / JEE Main)
4.01. If A, B, C are sets such that A  B  A  C and A  B  A  C , then [2009]
(A) B  C (B) A  B   (C) A  B (D) A  C
4.02. In a class of 140 students numbered 1 to 140, all even numbered students opted mathematics course,
those whose number is divisible by 3 opted Physics course and theose whose number is divisible by 5
opted Chemistry course. Then the number of students who did not opt for any of the three courses is :
[Jan 2019]
(A) 102 (B) 42 (C) 1 (D) 38
4.03. Two newspapers A and B are published in a city. It is known that 25 % of the city population reads A
and 20 % reads B , while 8 % reads both A and B . Further, 30 % of those who read A but not B look
into advertisements and 40 % of those who read B but not A also look into advertisements, while
50 % of those who read both A and B look into advertisements. Then the percentage of population
who look into advertisements is [Apr 2019]
(A) 13.9 (B) 12.8 (C) 13 (D) 13.5
4.04. Let A, B, C be sets such that   A  B  C . Then which of the following statements is NOT true ?
[Apr 2019]
(A) If  A  C   B, then A  B (B)  C  A   C  B   C

(C) If  A  B   C , then A  C (D) B  C  

4.05. If A   x  R : x  2 and B   x  R : x  2  3 , then : [Jan 2020]

(A) A  B   1, 2  (B) A  B  R   2, 5

(C) B  A  R   2,5 (D) A  B   2, 1

4.06. Let X  n  N :1  n  50 . If A  n  X : nisamultipleof  and B  n  X : nisamultipleof  ,

then the number of elements in the smallest subset of X containing both A and B is [Jan 2020]

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 ANSWER KEYS

EXERCISE 1
01 A  1, 0,1, 2,3 02 B  3n : n  N and1  n  4
03 Yes 04 No
05 Empty set 06 Singleton set
07 Infinite set 08 Singleton set
09 A 10  x : x  R, 5  x  9
11  3, 7  12 Eight

13  , 5 , 6 , 5, 6 14 A  B  O, D, E , L, H , I 

15 A  B   D, L 16 A  B   E , H , I 
17 Yes 18  A  B    B  A
19  A  B  C 20 U  1, 2, 3,...,18

21 4,6 26  , 0   3,  
27  0, 6 28  2,3
29 0, 2 30 250
31 280 32 No
33 23 34 33,14,40,8,48,4,58
35 6 36 35,11,11
37 m  6, n  3 39 2,3,5
41 14 42 Y

EXERCISE 3
01 D 02 C 03 C 04 C 05 A

EXERCISE 4
01 A 02 D 03 C 04 A 05 C 06 29