SETS

(UNIVERSAL SETS, SUBSETS,

AND CARDINALITY)
 OBJECTIVES

• list the subsets of a set;

• identify the cardinality of a set;
•illustrate universal set.
 VOCABULARY WORDS
• SUBSET
• UNIVERSAL SET
• CARDINALITY
• EQUAL SET
• EQUIVALENT SET
 GROUP ACTIVITY
Pasig Quezon Navotas yellow ten blue
City
red four orange six Austr Antarctica
alia
Asia violet Europe Caloocan green Malabon
City City
indigo South two Africa eight North
America America
 WHAT YOU WILL DO:
• Look at each of the words written on the flash cards.
• Think how you could sort the words. Group the words
according to the characteristics you have chosen. Fill out the
chartCharacteristics
below. Words that satisfy the characteristics
 ACTIVITY

Form the following sets using the number in the Cards.

a. A = { even numbers less than 10}
b. B = {numbers less than 11}
c. C = {prime numbers}
d. D = {numbers from 1 to 4}
UNIVERSAL SET
 SUBSET
Consider the following sets.
A = {2, 4, 6, 8} B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}

By inspection, you can see that 2 ∈ A read as “2 is an element of A” and 2 ∈

B read as “3 is an element of B”; similarly that 8 ∈ A and 8 ∈ B. You will
also observe that every element in Set A is also contained in Set B. When a
set is contained in another set B, therefore you can say that A is a subset of B.
 EQUAL AND EQUIVALENT
• Two sets are equal if and only if they contain exactly the same element.
Example: K = {4, 5, 1} and M = { 5, 1,4}
S = { a, b, c, d} and T = { b, a, d, c}
• Two sets are equivalent if and only if there is one-to-one correspondence
between the sets.
Example: M = {3, 5} and K = {a, b}
L = {1, 2, 3} and O = {4, 5, 6}
 TRY THIS!

• List all the possible subsets of C = {4, 8, 12}.

• Determine the cardinality of the given set
A = {t, r, i, a, n, g, l, e, s}.
• Given A= {1, 8, 9}, B = {2, 3, 4) and C = {5, 6, 7}.
What is the universal set?
 REMEMBER THIS!

• Set A is a subset of Set B, written as A ⊆ B, if and only

if every element in A is also an element in B.
• A universal set is a set which contains all the elements
of other sets. It is usually denoted by the symbol “U”.
• The cardinality of a set is the number of elements in the
set. It is usually denoted as n(S).
 ACTIVITY 2
Do the following:
1. Given A= {1, 4, 5}, B = {2, 3, 4) and C = {5, 6, 7}. What is the
universal set?
2. For the set {3, 4, 5}, list all the subsets.
3. What is the cardinality of the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}?
4. What is the cardinality of the set {b, r, e, a, d}?
 ASSIGNMENT
Number of Subsets of a set
Direction: Complete the table below.
Set Number of List of subsets Number of
elements in the Subsets
Original set
{}
{a}
{a, b}
{a, b, c}
{a, b, c, d}
 JOURNAL WRITING
• I LEARNED THAT
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• I REALIZED THAT
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