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Sets Theory 2
Sets Theory 2
Elements or members.
Roster notation:
Set-builder notation:
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There are four-sided shapes which are not parallelograms.
Example:
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Equality of sets: Two sets are equal when they have exactly the same
elements.
China
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Venn Diagrams: A way to visualise relations between sets.
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A country is either in the EU or it's not.
Set operations
Complement of a set:
If is a set, then the set of all the elements that don't belong to is called
the complement of
Union:
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A B
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1 3
4
2 6
Intersection:
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For any two sets A and B, if then A and B are disjoint.
Mutually exclusive.
Difference
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A B
Partition
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De Morgan's laws
Example:
A B
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Example:
A B
Distributive laws
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is the set of all non Rolls Royce cars.
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form a partition of
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Have a set with three elements Look at all the subsets of
purely a subset
Subsets of
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Have a set with three elements Look at all the subsets of
Subsets of
• The set of all subsets of a set A is called its power set, and it's denoted
as
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• For any countable set with cardinality
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