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1.1 Exercise 19

Avg difficulty 2.5

Determine if the following pairs of sets are equal, equivalent, or neither.

  1. E={2,4,6,8,10 }E = \left\{2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 10\right\} and F={fork, spoon, knife, meat thermometer, can opener}F = \left\{fork, spoon, knife, meat thermometer, can opener\right\}
  2. The empty set and the set of prime numbers less than 2.
  3. The set of vowels in the word happiness and the set of consonants in the word happiness.

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