Sets
Set-builder notation, subset and membership, and the union, intersection and complement operations used as shared vocabulary in every chapter that follows.
6 exercises
Exercise 11
Find an example of sets and such that and .
Exercise 12
Find an example of sets and such that and .
Exercise 13
Recall (the integers). Let be the positive integers. Let be the even integers, be the multiples of 3, and so on.
Is ? Explain.
Is ? Explain.
Find . Describe the set in words, and using set notation.
Express as a union or intersection of two sets already described in this problem.
Exercise 17
Let . Find .
Exercise 20
Find an example of sets and such that , , and .
Exercise 28
Consider the sets and , where and . What are the sets?
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