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Pictorial representations of sets represented by closed figures are called set diagrams or Venn diagrams.
Venn diagrams are used to illustrate various operations like union, intersection and difference.
We can express the relationship among sets through this in a more significant way.
In this,
• Circles or ovals are used to represent other subsets of the universal set.
• If a set A is a subset of set B, then the circle representing set A is drawn inside the circle representing set B.
• If set A and set B have some elements in common, then to represent them, we draw two circles which are
overlapping.
• If set A and set B are disjoint, then they are represented by two non-intersecting circles.
In this diagrams, the universal set is represented by a rectangular region and its subsets by circles inside the
rectangle. We represented disjoint set by disjoint circles and intersecting sets by intersecting circles.