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SECTION A
MCQs:
1. If A= {1} Find n(P(P(A)))
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 16

2. Number of subset(s) of an empty set is

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) not defined

3. Let C = {x : x is an even prime number greater than 2}.Then C is

(a) a finite set (b) an empty (c) an infinite (d) not a set
set set

4. Number of subsets of the set {2,3,4}is

(a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 8 (d) 6

5. Representation of {x:x ∈ R, -3 < x ≤ 8} as interval is

(a) [-3, 8] (b) (-3, 8) (c) [-3, 8) (d) (-3, 8]

6. Let A = { x|x ϵ R, x ≥ 4 }and B = { x|x ϵ R, x < 5 }. Then A

∩ B is
(a) {4} (b) {4,5} (c) [4,5) (d) (4,5)

7. Let A and B be two sets such that: n (A) = 20, n (A ∪ B) = 42 and n (A

∩ B) = 4.
Find n (B).
(a) 18 (b) 18 (c) 20 (d) 26

8. The number of elements in the power set P(S) of the set S = {{φ},1,
{2,3}} is
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 2 (d) 16
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9. If A and B are sets and A ∪ B = A ∩ B
(a) A = ɸ (b) B = ɸ (c) A = B (d) None of these

10. The number of subsets of a set containing n elements is

(a) 2n (b) 2 n - 1 (c) n n

11. Let A = {2, 5}, then subsets of set A are ϕ, {2}, {5}, {2, 5}, i.e. 4 subsets
then the number of
elements its power set contains are
(a) 4 (b) 42 (c) 10 (d) 2

12. The set (A ∩ B′)′ ∪ (B ∩ C) is equal to

(a) A′ ∪ B ∪ C (b) A' ∪ B (c) A′ ∪ C′ (d) A′ ∩ B
13. Let S = set of all points inside the square, T = the set of points inside the
triangle and C = the set of points inside the circle. If the triangle and circle

(b) S ∪ T ∪ C = C (c) S ∪ T ∪ C = S (d) S ∪ T = S ∩ C

intersect each other and are contained in a square. Then
(a) S ∩ T ∩ C = ϕ
14. If set A: numbers multiple of 4 and set B: numbers multiple of 6, then set A
∩ B is
(a) numbers multiple of 2 (b) numbers multiple of 4
(c) numbers multiple of 1 (d) numbers multiple of 24

15. For disjoint sets A and B, n (A) = 3, n (B) = 5, then n (A ∩ B) is

(a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 8

16. Representation of set A = {x | x ∈ Z, x2 < 20} in the roster form is

(a) {1, 2, 3, ..., 20} (b) {1, 2, 3, 4} c) {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} (d) {–4, –3, –2, –
1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

(b) {x ∈ W : x ≤ 1} (c) {x ∈ Z : x ≤ 1}
17. The set {– 1, 1} in the set builder form can be written as
(a) {–1, 1} (d) {x : x is a
2
solution of x = 1}

For Q18 and Q19, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a

statement of reason (R). Choose
the correct answer out of the following choices.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.

18. Assertion (A): The set A = {x : x is an even prime number greater than 2} is
the empty set.
Reason (R): The set B = {x : x2 = 4, x is odd} is not an empty set.
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19. Assertion (A): If n (A) = 3, n (B) = 6 and A ⊂ B, then the number of elements
in A ∪ B is 9.
Reason (R): If A and B are disjoint, then n (A ∪ B ) is n (A) + n (B).

20. For any set A, (A’)’ is equal to

(a) A’ (b) A (c) ɸ (d) None of these

= 11, n (Y ∩ Z) = 8, n (X ∩ Z) = 5, n (X ∩ Y ∩ Z) = 3, then n (X ∪ Y ∪ Z)’ equals

21. Let X, Y, Z be three sets given as n(X) = 15, n (Y) = 22, n (Z) = 14, n (X ∩ Y)

if X, Y, Z are subsets of U and n (U) =

(a) 35 (b) 30 (c) 26 (d) 5

22. Let S = {x:x is a positive multiple of 3 less than 10}, P = {x:x is a prime
number less than 20}, then n (S) + n (P) is
(a) 34 (b) 31 (c) 33 (d) 41

47, then n (A ∪ B) is
23. Given two finite sets A and B such that n (A) = 115, n (B) = 326, n (A - B) =

(a) 373 (b) 165 (c) 370 (d) None of these

numbers of elements in A ∪ B is
24. Given two finite sets A and B such that n (A) = 3, n (B) = 6. Then minimum

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 18

25. If a set A containing 6 elements, then number of non-empty subsets of A is

(a) 36 (b) 30 (c) 64 (d) 63

26. Let A = {(x, y) : y = e2x, x ∈ R} and B = {(x, y) : y = e-2x , ∀ x ∈ R}, then A ∩

B is
(a) Not a set (b) Singleton set (c) Empty Set (d) None of these

27. If A = {x:x = 4n + 1, ∀ 2 ≤ n ≤ 6}, then the number of subsets of A are

(a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 25 (d) 26

28. If Na = {na, n ∈ N}, then N3 ∩ N5 is equal to

(a)N8 (b)N5 (c) N3 (d)N15

29. Each set Xr contains 5 elements and each set Yr contains 2 elements and U
20 n
r=1 , Xr = S = U r=1 Yr. If each element of S belong to exactly 10 of the X r’s and
to exactly 4 of the Yr’s then n is
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 100 (d) 50

30. Two finite sets have m and n elements respectively. The total number of
subsets of first set is 56 more than the total number of subsets of the second
set. The values of m and n respectively are
(a) 7, 6 (b) 5, 1 (c) 6, 3 (d) 8, 7
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31. Let A = {x:x ∈ R, |x| < 2}, B = {x:x ∈ R, |x – 2| ≥ 2} and A ∪ B = R – C,
then the set C equals
(a) {x: -2 ≤ x < 4} (b) {x: -2 ≤ x ≤ 4} (c) {x: 2 ≤ x < 4} (d)
None of these

32. Which of the following collections is not a set?

(a) Collection of ten best movies of 2021 (b) Collection of all novels
written by Shakespeare (c) Collection of the Presidents of India since 1947 (d)
Collection of natural numbers from 1 to 1000

(a) {𝑥:𝑥 = 𝑛/3𝑛,𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟} (b) {𝑥:𝑥= 𝑛 − 2/𝑛,𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 𝑖𝑠

33. The set P = {13,24,35,46,57,.....} in set-builder form is given by

𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟} (c) {𝑥:𝑥 = 𝑛/𝑛 + 2,𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟} (d)

None of the above

34. Consider the set A = {x: x is a prime number and a divisor of 24}. The
roster form of this set is (a) {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24} (b) {1, 2, 3} (c)
{2, 3} (d) {1, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24}

(a) {𝑥:𝑥 ∈ 𝐍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 (𝑥 − 1) (𝑥 − 4) = 0} (b) {𝑥:𝑥 ∈ 𝐍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒}

35. Which of the following sets is infinite?

(c) {𝑥:𝑥 ∈ 𝐍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥2 = 100} (d) {𝑥:𝑥 ∈ 𝐍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥2 ≥ 0}

36. Let A = {2, 4, 6, 8}, B = {8, 6, 4, 2}, C = {2, 4, 4, 6, 8} and D = {4, 2, 8,

6}, then which of the given sets are equal?
(a) A, B and D (b) A and B (c) None are equal (d) All are equal

(a) {x ∈ R, −3 < x and x < 20} (b) {x ∈ R, x² = −8} (c) {x ∈ R, x³ = −8} (d)
37. Which of the following sets is empty?

Set of even prime numbers

38. Let S = {x : x is a positive multiple of 3 less than 100} and P = {x : x is a

prime number less than 20}. Then n(S) + n(P) is
(a) 41 (b) 44 (c) 43 (d) 40

39. Number of subset(s) of an empty set is

(a) 2 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) None of these

40. Two finite sets have m and n elements. The number of subsets of the first
set is 112 more than that of the second set. The values of m and n are,
respectively
(a) 4, 7 (b) 7, 4 (c) 4, 4 (d) 7, 7

41. The number of elements in the set A = {x : x is a letter in the word

‘STATISTICS’} are
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 10

42. Which of the following sets is/are null set(s)?

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(a) {0} (b) {} (c) ϕ (d) Both (b) and (c)

43. Number of subsets of a set of order three is

(a) 6 (b) 3 (c) 8 (d) 9

44. The smallest set A such that A ∪ {4,5}= {1,2,3,4,5} is

(a) {3, 4, 5} (b) {1, 2, 3} (c) {1, 2} (d) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

45. If sets A and B are defined as A = {(x, y) ∶ y = 1/x, 0 ≠ x ∈ R} and B ={(x,

y) ∶ y = –x, x ∈ R}, then
(a) A ∩ B = A (b) A ∩ B = B (c) A ∩ B = ϕ (d) A ∪ B = A

46. The universal set for the sets A = {x: x² − 5x + 6 = 0} and B={x: x² − 3x +
2 = 0} having least number of elements is
(a) {1, 2} (b) {1, 3} (c) {1, 2, 3} (d) {0, 1, 2, 3}

47. If A and B are two sets, then A ∩ (A ∪ B) equals

(a) A (b) B (c) ϕ (d) A ∩ B

48. If A and B are sets and A ∪ B = A ∩ B, then

(a) A = ϕ (b) B = ϕ (c) A = B (d) None of these

49. Let A = {x ∈ R, x ≥ 4} and B = {x ∈ R, x < 5}. Then A ∩ B is

(a) [4, 5) (b) {4} (c) {4, 5} (d) (4, 5)

50. If P = {1, 2, 3, 4}, Q = {2, 4, 6, 8} and R = {3, 4, 5, 6} then P ∩ (Q ∪ R) =

(a) {1, 2, 3, 8} (b) {2, 3, 4} (c) {1, 5, 6, 8} (d) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8}

(a) A ∪ B = B ∪ A (b) A ∪ A = A ∩ A = A (c) A ∪ (B ∩ C) = (A ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ C) (d) A

51. Which of following properties does not hold for sets?

∪U=U

52. Which of the following is not a subset of Q?

(a) Set of natural numbers (b) Set of integers (c) Set of rational numbers (d) Set
of irrational numbers

53. From the given Venn diagram, the elements belonging to A ∩ B ∩ C are

(a) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} (b) {2, 3, 4, 6} (c) {8, 9, 10} (d) {3}

54. Representation of {x ∈ R, −3 < x ≤ 8} as an interval is

(a) (−3, 8] (b) [−3, 8) (c) (−3, 8) (d) [−3, 8]

55. If aN = {ax : x ∈ N }, then the set 3N ∩ 7N is equal to

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(a) 7N (b) 21N (c) 3N (d) Both (a) and (c)

56. The number of elements in P(A) if A contains n elements:

(a) n (b) n² (c) nⁿ (d) 2ⁿ

(a) 2 ⊆ A (b) 2 ∈ A (c) {2} ∈ A (d) All of the above

57. If A = {2, 5, 3, 10} then which of the following is true?

58. Let A and B be two sets such that n(A) = 32, n(B) = 20 , n(A ∪ B) = 38. Then
n(A ∩ B) =
(a) 14 (b) 41 (c) 90 (d) 52

59. If P = {a, b, c, d, e, f}, then the number of proper subsets of P is

(a)31 (b) 63 (c) 64 (d) 32

60. If E and F are two finite sets such that E ⊂ F, then

(a) n(E ∪ F) = n(E) (b) n(E ∪ F) = n(F) (c) n(E ∩ F) = n(F) (d) None of these

61. Which of the following is/are singleton set(s)?

(a) {ϕ} (b) The empty set (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of the above

62. The number of elements in the Power set P(S) of the set S = {1, 2, 3} is:
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 2 (d) None of these

63. Empty set is a _______.

(a) Infinite set (b) Finite set (c) Unknown set (d) Universal set

64. Cardinality of the power set P(A) of a set A having ‘n’ number of elements is
equal to:
(a) n (b) 2n (c) 2ⁿ (d) n²

65. Write X = {1, 4, 9, 16, 25,…} in set builder form.

(a) X = {x: x is a prime number} (b) X = {x: x is a whole number} (c) X = {x: x
is a natural number}
(d) X = {x: x is a square number}

66. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, the number of proper subsets is –

(a) 120 (b) 30 (c) 31 (d) 32

67. The group of honest people in a city is –

(a) Void Set (b) Finite Set (c) Infinite Set (d) Not a set

68. The set of circles passing through origin is –

(a) Finite set (b) Infinite set (c) Null set (d) None of these

69. The set A ∪ A′ is –

(a) A (b) A′ (c) Ø (d) U
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A∪B–
70. Set A and B has 3 and 6 elements. Find the minimum number of elements in

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 8

71. If A and B are two disjoint sets, then A ∩ B =

(a) A (b) A′ (c) Ø (d) U

72. Suppose A1, A2,..., A30 are thirty sets each having 5 elements and B1, B2,...,

are n sets each with 3 elements, let and each element of S

belongs to exactly 10 of the Ai's and exactly 9 of the Bj's. Then n is equal to
(a) 15 (b) 3 (c) 45 (d) 35

73. The set (A ∩B′)′ ∪ (B ∩ C) (A ∩ B′)′ ∪ (B ∩ C) (A ∩ B′)′ ∪ (B ∩ C) is equal to

(a) A′ ∪ B ∪ C (b) A′ ∪ B (c) A′ ∪ C′ (d) A′ ∩ B

74. Let F1 be the set of parallelograms, F2 the set of rectangles, F3 the set of
rhombuses,
F4 the set of squares and F5 the set of trapeziums in a plane. Then F 1 may be

(a) F2 ∩ F3 (b) F3 ∩ F4 (c) F2 ∪ F5 (d) F2 ∪ F3 ∪ F4 ∪ F1

equal to

75. Let S = set of points inside the square,

T = the set of points inside the triangle and
C = the set of points inside the circle.
If the triangle and circle intersect each other and are contained in a square,

(a) S ∩ T ∩ C = φ (b) S ∪ T ∪ C = C (c) S ∪ T ∪ C = S (d) S ∪ T = S ∩ C

then

76. Let R be the set of points inside a rectangle of sides a and b (a, b > 1) with
two sides along the positive direction of x-axis and y-axis. Then
(a) R = {(x, y): 0 ≤ x ≤ a, 0 ≤ y ≤ b} (b) R = {(x, y): 0 ≤ x < a, 0 ≤ y ≤ b} (c) R
= {(x, y): 0 ≤ x ≤ a, 0 < y < b} (d) R = {(x, y): 0 < x < a, 0 < y < b}

77. In a class of 60 students, 25 students play cricket and 20 students play

tennis, and 10 students play both the games. Then, the number of students who
play neither is
(a) 0 (b) 25 (c) 35 (d) 45

78. In a town of 840 persons, 450 persons read Hindi, 300 read English and 200
read both. Then the number of persons who read neither is
(a) 210 (b) 290 (c) 180 (d) 260

79. If X = {8n – 7n – 1∣n ∈ N} and Y = {49n – 49∣ n ∈ N}, then

(a) X ⊂ Y (b) Y ⊂ X (c) X = Y (d) X ∩ Y = φ
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80. A survey shows that 63% of the people watch a News Channel whereas 76%
watch another channel. If x% of the people watch both channels, then
(a) x = 35 (b) x = 63 (c) 39 ≤ x ≤ 63 (d) x = 39

A = {(x, y) : y = 1/x, 0 ≠ x ∈ R},

81. If sets A and B are defined as

B = {(x, y) : y = –x, x ∈ R}, then

(a) A ∩ B = A (b) A ∩ B = B (c) A ∩ B = φ (d) A ∪ B = A

82. If A and B are two sets, then A ∩ (A ∪ B) equals

(a) A (b) B (c) φ (d) A ∩ B

numbers) is the universal set, then A′ ∪ ((A ∪ B) ∩ B′) is

83. If A = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17}, B = {2, 4, ..., 18} and N (set of natural

(a) φ (b) N (c) A (d) B

84. Let S = {x | x is a positive multiple of 3 less than 100}

P = {x | x is a prime number less than 20}. Then n (S) + n (P) is
(a) 34 (b) 31 (c) 33 (d) 30

85. If X and Y are two sets and X′ denotes the complement of X, then X ∩ (X ∪ Y)
′ is equal to
(a) X (b) Y (c) φ (d) X ∩ Y

86. The set A = {x, x ∈ N, and x² - 3x + 2 = 0} is:

(a) Null set (b) Finite set (c) Infinite set (d) None of these

87. The set A = {x, x ∈ R, and x² = 9, 2x = 4} is:

(a) Empty set (b) Singleton set (c) Infinite set (d) None of these

88. Let A = {x: x is a letter in the word FOLLOW}, B = {y: y is a letter in the

(a) A & B are disjoint (b) A = B (c) A ⊃ B (d) None of these

word WOLF}

(a) A = B(b) B ⊂ A (c) A is proper subset of B (d) None of these

89. If A ∩ Bᶜ =

90. Aᶜ – Bᶜ is equal to
(a) B – A (b) A – B (c) A = B (d) None of these

91. If A = { }, then total number of elements in P(A) are

(a) No element (b) Zero (c) Two (d) One

92. If A = {x,y} , the power set of A is

(a) {{x},{y}} (b) { { }, {x,y}} (c) { ,{x},{y}} (d) None of these
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93. A set has n elements, then the total number of subsets are
(a) 2n (b) 2n-1 (c) 22n (d) None of these

94. A set has n elements, then the total number of proper subsets are
(a) 2n (b) 2n-1 (c) 22n (d) None of these

95. The sets A& B have 6 & 9 elements respectively, such that A is proper
subset B , then the total number of elements A ∩ B are
(a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 3 (d) 15

subset B , then the total number of elements A ∪ B are

96. The sets A& B have 5 & 9 elements respectively, such that A is proper

(a) 5 (b) 9 (c) 14 (d) 4

97. The smallest set A such that A ∪ {4, 5} = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is

(a) {3, 4, 5} (b) {1, 2, 3} (c) {1, 2} (d) {1,2,3,4,5}

98. Which set is the subsets of all the given sets?

(a) {1} (b) {0} (c) ɸ (d) {0, 1, 6, 7}

99. If A & B are two sets such that n(A)= 15, n(B)= 21, & n(A ∪B) = 36 then
n(A∩B) equal to
(a) 2 (b) 0 (c) 4 (d) 15

100. If P & Q are two sets such that P ∪ Q has 20 elements , P has 9 elements &
Q has 16 elements. How many elements does P ∩ Q have?
(a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 0

101. In a Group of 300 people, 150 can speak French & 200 can speak German.
How many can speak both French & German?
(a) 40 (b) 50 (c) 20 (d) None of these

102. For a set A , the power set of A is denoted by 2A. If A= {5, {6}, {7}},

(a) ɸ ∈ 2A (b) ɸ ⊆ 2A (c) {5,{6}} ∈ 2A (d) {5,{6}} ⊆ 2A

which of the following option are true?

103. If 63% of persons like banana, where 76% like apple. What can be said
about the percentage of persons who like both banana & apples ?
(a) 40 (b) 39 (c) 27 (d) 24

104. Which of the following set(s) are empty?

(a) {x:x = x} (b) {x:x ≠ x} (c) {x:x = x 2} (d) {x:x ≠ x2}

105. If A = {x, y}, the power set of A is

(a) {{x}, {y}} (b) {{ɸ}, {x,y}} (c) {ɸ,{x},{y}} (d) None of these
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106. In a group of 72 students, 47 have background is electronics, 59 have
background in Mathematics & 42 have background in both the subjects. How
many subjects do not have background in any of the subjects?
(a) 8 (b) 13 (c) 25 (d) 34

107. A - (B ∪ C) is equal to
(a) (A - B) ∪ A - C) (b) A – B - C (c) (A - B) (A - C) (d) (A - B) ∪ C

108. The number of elements in the Power set P(S) of the set S = {1, 2,3} is:
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 2 (d) None of these

109. Order of the power set P(A) of a set A of order n is equal to:
(a) n (b) 2n (c) 2n (d) n2

110. How many elements are there in the complement of set A?

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) All the elements of A (d)None of these

111. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, P = {1, 2, 5}, Q = {6, 7}. Then P ∩ Q’

is :
(a) P (b) Q (c) Q’ (d) None

112. The cardinality of the power set of {x: x ∈N, x≤10} is ______.
(a) 1024 (b) 1023 (c) 2048 (d) 2043

113. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A × (B ∪ C) is equal to:

(a) (A × B) ∪ (A × C) (b) (A ∪ B) × (A ∪ C) (c) (A × B) ∩ (A × C) (d) None of the
above

114. If A={1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, then the number of proper subsets of A is

(a) 120 (b) 30 (c) 31 (d) 32

115. For any two sets A and B, A ∩ (A ∪ B) =

(a) A (b) B (c) ɸ (d) none of these

116. Let A and B be two sets such that n (A)= 16, n (B)= 14, n (A ∪ B)=25 then
n(A ∩ B) is equal to
(a) 30 (b) 50 (c) 5 (d) none of these

117. For two sets A∪ B=A iff

(a)B ⊂ A (b) A ⊂ B (c) A ≠ B (d) A = B

118. Let A and B be two sets in the same universal set. Then A - B =
(a) A ∩ B (b) A‟ ∩ B (c) A ∩ B‟ (d) none of these

119. Set of even prime numbers is

(a) Null set (b) a singleton set (c) a finite set (d) an infinite set
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120. The set of circles passing through the origin (0, 0)
(a) Finite set (b) infinite set (c) Null set (d) none of these

[Link] set A ∪ A′
(a) A (b) A‟ (c)ɸ (d) U

(a) A ∪ B = ɸ (b) A ∩ B ≠ ɸ (c) A ∩ B = ɸ (d) A – B = A

122. Two sets A, B are disjoint if :

minimum number of elements in A ∪ B?

123. Set A and B have 3 and 6 elements respectively. What can be the

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 18

124. For any two sets A and B, A ∩ (A ∪ B) =

(a) A (b) B (c) ϕ (d) none of these

(a) 4 ∈ A (b) {4} ⊂ A (c) B ⊂ A (d) none of these

125. If A = {1, 3, 5, B} and B = {2, 4}, then

126. Let A = {x ∈ R : x > 4} and B = {x ∈ R : x < 5}. Then A ∩ B =

(a) (4, 5] (b) (4, 5) (c) [4, 5) (d) [4, 5]

127. Let A and B be two sets such that n(A) = 16, n(B) = 14, n(A ∪ B) = 25.
Then n(A ∩ B) =
(a) 30 (b) 50 (c) 5 (d) none of these

128. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, then the number of proper subsets of A is

(a) 120 (b) 30 (c) 31 (d) 32

129. In set builder form, empty set is represented by

(a) { } (b) ϕ (c) {x : x ≠ x} (d) {x : x = x}

130. For two sets A and B, A ∪ B = A iff

(a) B ⊆ A (b) A ⊆ B (c) A ≠ B (d) none of these

131. In a city, 20% of population travel by car, 50% travel by bus and 10%
travel by both car and bus. Then percentage of persons travelling neither by car
nor bus is:
(a) 80% (b) 40% (c) 60% (d) 70%

132. Which of the following collections is not a set?

(a) Collection of natural numbers less than 15
(b) Collection of solutions of equation x² − 5x + 6 = 0

(c) Collection of prime numbers between 5 and 60

(d) Collection of good students of Class XI
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133. The set of all prime numbers is
(a) A finite set (b) A singleton set (c) An infinite set (d) None of these

(a) 0 ∈ { } (b) 0 ⊂ { } (c) 0 ∈ {0} (d) 0 ⊂ {0}

134. Which of the following statements is true?

135. When set A = ɸ, then number of elements in P(A) is

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) none of these

136. If sets A and B are defined as A = {(x, y): y = 1/x, x ≠ 0, x ∈ R} and B =

{(x, y): y = x, x ∈ R}, then
(a) A ∩ B = A (b) A ∩ B = B (c) A ∩ B = ɸ (d) A ∪ B = A

137. If A and B are finite sets such that A ⊂ B, then

(a) n (A ∪ B) = n (A) (b) n (A ∩ B) = n (B) (c) n (A ∪ B) = n (B) (d) None of
these

138. Let A, B, C be three sets such that A ∪ B = A ∪ C and A ∩ B = A ∩ C, then

(a) A = B (b) B = C (c) A = C (d) A = B = C

139. Let A = {a, b, c}, B = {b, c, d}, C = {a, b, d, e}, then A ∩ (B ∪ C) =

(a) {c} (b) {a, b, c} (c) {b, c, d} (d) {a, b, d, e}

(a) A = {x:x = 7n, n ∈ N and 1 ≤ n ≤ 15}

140. The set A = {14, 21, 28, 35, 42, ..., 98} in set-builder form is

(b) A = {x:x = 7n, n ∈ N and 2 ≤ n ≤ 14}

(c) A = {x:x = 7n, n ∈ N and 3 ≤ n ≤ 13}
(d) A = {x:x = 7n, n ∈ N and 4 ≤ n ≤ 12}

141. A and B are two sets, then A ⋂ (A ⋃ B ) equals to

(a) A (b) B (c) f (d) A ⋂ B

142. The set (A U B U C) ∩ (A ∩ B′ ∩ C′)′ ∩ C′ is equal to

(a) B ∩ C′ (b) A ∩ C (c) B U C′ (d) A ∩ C′

143. In a group of 400 people, 250 can speak Hindi and 200 can speak English.
How many people can speak both Hindi and English?
(a) 40 (d) 52 (c) 50 (d) none of these

144. The set (A U B U C) ∩ (A ∩ B′ ∩ C′)′ ∩ C′ is equal to

(a) B ∩ C′ (b) A ∩ C (c) B U C′ (d) A ∩ C′

FILL IN THE BLANKS:

1. If A and B are two finite sets, then n (A) + n (B)is equal to _______.
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2. Power set of the set A = {1,2}. is _________________.

3. When A = ɸ, then the number of elements in P(A) is _______.

4. If A and B are any two sets, then A - B is equal to ________.

5. For all sets A and B, A – (A ∩ B) is equal to __________.

6. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, A = {1, 2, 3, 5}, C = {2, 3, 4, 8},

then (C – A)’ is ____.

7. If A and B are finite sets such that A ⊂ B, then n (A ∪ B) = _______.

8. If A is a finite set containing n elements, then number of nonempty subsets of

A is ____________.

9. The set {x ∈ R : 1 ≤ x < 2} can be written as ______________.

10. When A = φ, then number of elements in P (A) is ______________.

11. If A and B are finite sets such that A ⊂ B, then n (A ∪ B) = ______________.

12. If A and B are any two sets, then A – B is equal to ______________.

13. Power set of the set A = {1, 2} is ______________.

14. Given the sets A = {1, 3, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6} and C = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}. Then the
universal set of all the three sets A, B and C can be ______________.

15. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, A = {1, 2, 3, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6, 7}, C = {2,

(i) (B ∪ C)′ is ______________.

3, 4, 8}. Then
(ii) (C – A)′ is ______________.

16. For all sets A and B, A – (A ∩ B) is equal to ______________.

((A’ ∪ B’) – A)’

17. Match the following sets for all sets A, B and C

[B’ ∪ (B’ – A)]’

(a) A – B
(b) A
(A – B) – (B – C) (c) B

(e) (A × B) ∪ (A × C)
(A – B) ∩ (C - B) (d) (A × B) ∩ (A × C)

A × (B ∪ C)
A × (B ∩ C)
(f) (A ∩ C) - B

18. Write the set A = {x:x ∈ x, x2 < 20} in roster form. _______________.

19. Describe the following set in set builder form A = {53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79,
83, 89, 97}. _________.
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20. . Let A = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, B = { 2, 4, 6, 8 } then A – B = ________

21. The set {5, 25, 125, 625} in the set-builder form is ___________

22. If X and Y are two sets such that X U Y has 50 elements, X has 28 elements and
Y has 32
elements, then elements does X ∩ Y have _________

23. The interval (6, 12] in the set-builder form is ________

24. Let V = { a, e, i, o, u } and B = { a, i, k, u}, then V – B = _________

25. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, A = {2, 4, 6, 8} and B = { 2, 3, 5, 7} then A′ ∩

B′ = _________

26. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, A = {1, 2, 3, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6, 7} and C = {2,

3, 4, 8}. Then
(C – A)′ is ______________.

TRUE OR FALSE:

1. If A is any set, then A ⊂ A

then B ⊄ M
2. Given that M = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} and B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9},

3. The sets {1, 2, 3, 4} and {3, 4, 5, 6} are equal.

4. Q ∪ Z = Q, where Q is the set of rational numbers and Z is the set of

integers.

5. Let sets R and T be defined as R = {x ∈ Z | x is divisible by 2}, T = {x ∈ Z

| x is divisible by 6}. Then T ⊂ R

6. Given A = {0, 1, 2}, B = {x ∈ R | 0 ≤ x ≤ 2}. Then A = B

7. {5, 7, 9} = {9, 7, 5}

8. Sets {4, 9, 6, 2} and {6, 2, 4, 9} are not same.

9. Sets {0, 1, 3, 9, 4} and {4, 0, 1, 3, 9} are same.

10. {a, b, c, c, d} = {a, b, c}

11. {2, 3, 3, 4, 4} = {2, 3, 4}

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12. Sets {5, 4} and {5, 4, 4, 5} are not same.

13. Sets {8, 3} and {3, 3, 8} are same.

14. {x | x is a vowel in the word ‘equation’}

15. If M is the set of letters used in the word ‘KOLKATA’, then M = {k, o, l, a,
t}.

16. For all sets A and B, (A – B) ∪ (A ∩ B) = A

17. For all sets A, B and C, A – (B – C) = (A – B) – C

18. For all sets A, B and C, if A ⊂ B, then A ∩ C ⊂ B ∩ C

19. For all sets A, B and C, if A ⊂ B, then A ∪ C ⊂ B ∪ C

20. For all sets A, B and C, if A ⊂ C and B ⊂ C, then A ∪ B ⊂ C.

ASSERTION AND REASON:

DIRECTION: A statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of
reason (R). Choose
the correct answer out of the following choices.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
(e) Both A and R are false.

1. Assertion (A): The set A = {x : x is an even prime number greater than 2} is

the empty set.
Reason (R): The set B = {x : x2 = 4, x is odd} is not an empty set.

2. Assertion (A): If n (A) = 3, n (B) = 6 and A ⊂ B, then the number of elements

in A ∪ B is 9.
Reason (R): If A and B are disjoint, then n (A ∪ B ) is n (A) + n (B).

3. Assertion: The union of two finite sets is always finite.

Reason: The union of two finite sets contains all the elements from both sets,
which is a finite collection.

4. Assertion: The intersection of two finite sets is always finite.

Reason: The intersection of two finite sets contains only the common
elements, which is also a finite collection.

5. Assertion: The power set of a set with ‘n’ elements contains (2ⁿ) subsets.
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Reason: Each element in the power set can either be included or excluded
from the original set, resulting in (2ⁿ) possible subsets.

6. Assertion: If (A is a subset of B) and (B is a subset of A), then (A = B).

Reason: If every element of set (A) is in set (B) and vice versa, the two sets
are equal.

7. Assertion: The empty set is a subset of every set.

Reason: By definition, the empty set has no elements, so it is a subset of any
set.

8. Assertion (A) “The collection of all natural numbers less than 100‟ is a set.
Reason (R) :A set is a well-defined collection of the distinct objects.

9. Assertion (A): Set of English alphabets is the universal set for the set of
vowels in English alphabets.
Reason (R) : The set of vowels is the subset of consonants in the English
alphabets

10. Assertion (A): Let A={1,2,3} and B={1,2,3,4} then A ⊂ B.

Reason (R): A set A is said to be a subset of a set B if every element of A is
also an element of B.

11. Assertion (A) : The set D = {x : x is a prime number which is a divisor of 60}
Reason(R ) : in roster form is{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}.

12. Assertion (A) : The set E = the set of all letters in the word
‘TRIGONOMETRY’, in the roster form is {T, R, I, G, O, N, M, E, Y}.
Reason (R ) In roaster form distinct elements is written ,separated by comma.

SECTION B
VERY SHORT ANSWERS:

1. If P = {1, 2, 3, 4}, Q = {2, 4, 6, 8} and R = {3, 4, 5, 6}, find P ∩ (Q ∩ R)

2. Find the power set of {a, b, c}.

3. Write the following intervals in set - builder form: (i) (-7, 0) (ii) [6, 12]

4. If X and Y are two sets such that n (X) = 15, n (Y) = 23 and n (X ∪ 𝑌) = 31,
find n (X ∩ 𝑌).

5. Let A = {p, q, r, s} B = {p, s, t }. Find (i) A ∩ B (ii) A ∪ B

6. Find all the subsets of {2, 4, 6}

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7. Two finite sets have m and n elements. The total no. of subsets of the first set
is 56 more than the total no. of subsets of second set. Find the value of m and
n.

8. A and B are two sets such that : n (A – B) = 14 + x, n (B – A) = 3x and n (A ∩

B) = x, draw a venn diagram to illustrate information and if n (A) = n (B) then
find the value of x.

value of n (A ∪ B) (ii)
9. A and B are two sets such that n (A) = 3 and n (B) = 6. Find (i) minimum

maximum value of n (A ∪ B).

10. If U = {x:x ≤ 10, x ∈ N}, A = {x:x ∈ N, x is prime}, B = {x:x ∈ N, x is

even}, write A ∩ B′ in roster form.

….10}. Find (A ∪ B)ˊ and (A ∩ B)ˊ.

11. Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, B = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10} and the universal set S = {1, 2, 3,

12. If A = {2, 3, 5, 7, 8}, B = {1, 5, 9} and Aˊ= {1, 4, 6, 9}, verify that: (i) (A ∪
B)ˊ = Aˊ∩ Bˊ (ii) B - A = Aˊ ∩ B

13. If n (U) = 60, n (A) = 35, n (A ∩ B) = 15 and n ((AUB)ˊ) = 20, find: (i) n (B)
(ii) n (B-A)

14. Prove that: A – (B U C) = (A - B) ∩ (A - C) by applying properties.

15. If B ⊂ A, then prove that B - A = ɸ

16. In a group of people, 50 people read newspaper A, 20 read newspaper B and

10 read both newspapers. How many people read atleast one of the two
newspapers?

17. In a survey of 600 students in a school, 150 students were found to be

drinking tea and 225 drinking milk and 100 students were drinking both tea and
milk. How many students were drinking neither tea or milk?

18. Let A, B and C be the sets such that A ∪ B = A ∪ C and A ∩ B = A ∩ C. Then

show that B = C.

19. For any sets A and B, show that P (A ∩ B) = P (A) ∩ P (B).

20. Show that if A ⊂ B, then C – B ⊂ C – A.

21. Assume that P (A) = P (B). Show that A = B.

22. Let A and B be two sets. If A ∩ X = B ∩ X = ɸ and A ∪ X = B ∪ X for some set

X, then show that A = B.
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23. Is it true that for any sets A and B, P (A) ∪ P (B) = P (A ∪ B)? Justify your
answer.

24. In a group of 65 peoples, 40 like cricket, 10 like both cricket and tennis. How
many like tennis only but not cricket? How many like tennis?

25. Write the sets in set – builder form. (i) {1/2, 2/3, ¾, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 8/9,
9/10} (ii) X = {1, ¼, 1/9, 1/16, 1/25, ……}

26. Write the set {1/2, 2/5, 3/10, 4/17, 5/26, 6/37, 7/50} in the set - builder
form.

27. Which of the sets are equal? (i) A = {1, 2, 3} (ii) B = {x ∈ R : x2 – 2x + 1 =

0} (iii) C = {1, 2, 2, 3} (iv) D = {x ∈ R : x3 – 6x2 + 11x – 6 = 0}

28. Write the following intervals in the set-builder form: (i) (-7, 0) (ii) [6, 12] (iii)
(6, 12] (iv) [-20, 3)

29. Write down all possible subsets of each of the following sets: (i) {a} (ii) {0,
1} (iii) {a, b, c} (iv) {1, {1}}.

30. If A and B are two sets such that, A ⊂ B, then find: (i) A ∩ B (ii) A ∪ B.

31. Show that for any sets A and B, (i) A = (A ∩ B) ∩ (A – B) (ii) A ∪ (B – A) = A ∪

B.

32. In a group of 50 people, 35 speak Hindi, 25 speak both English and Hindi
and all the people speak at least one of the two languages. How many people
speak only English and not Hindi? How many people speak English?

be the minimum number of elements in A ∪ B ? Find Also, the maximum

33. If A and B be two sets containing 3 and 6 elements respectively, when can

number of elements in A ∪ B.

34. There are 40 students in a Chemistry class and 650 students in a Physics
class. Find the number of students which are either in Physics class or
Chemistry class in the following cases: (i) The two classes meet at the same
hour. (ii) the two classes meet at different hours and 20 students are enrolled in
both the subjects.

35. In a survey of 700 students in a college, 180 were listed as drinking Limca,
275 as drinking Miranda and 95 were listed as both drinking Limca as well as
Miranda. Find how many students were drinking neither Limca nor Mirnda.

36. A survey shows that 63% of the Americans like cheese whereas 76% like
apples. If x% of the
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Americans like both cheese and apples, find the value of x.

37. In a class of 35 students, 17 have taken Mathematics, 10 have taken

Mathematics but not Economics. Find the number of students who have taken
both Mathematics and Economics and the number of students who have taken
Economics but not Mathematics, if it is given that each student has taken either
Mathematics or Economics or both.

38. A college awarded 38 medals in Football, 15 in Basketball and 20 to Cricket.

If these medals went to a total of 58 men and only three men got medals in all
the three sports, how many received metals in exactly two of the three sports?

39. In a survey of 60 people, it was found that 25 people read newspaper H, 26

read newspapers T, 26 read newspaper I, 9 read both H and I, 11 read both H
and T, 8 read both T and I, 3 read all three newspapers. Find: (i) The numbers of
people who reads at least one of the newspapers. (ii) The number of people who
read exactly one newspaper.

40. Of the members of three athletic teams in a certain school, 21 are in the
basketball team, 26 in hockey team and 29 in the football team. 14 play hockey
and basketball, 15 play hockey and football, 12 play football and basketball and
8 play all the three games. How many members are there in all?

41. In a survey of 10 persons it was found that 28 read magazine A, 30 read

magazine B, 42 read magazine C, 8 read magazines A and B, 10 read
magazines A and C, 5 read magazines B and C and 3 read all the three
magazines. Find (i) How many read none of three magazine? (ii) How many read
magazine C only?

verify that (i) (A ∪ B) ∪ C = A ∪ (B ∪ C) (ii) A ∩ (B ∩ C) = (A ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ C)

42. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, A = {2, 4, 6}, B = {3, 5}, C = {1, 2, 4, 7},

43. In a survey of 100 persons, it was found that 28 read magazine A, 30 read
magazine B, 42 read magazine C, 8 read magazines A and B, 10 read
magazines A and C, 5 read magazines B and C and 3 read all the three
magazines. Find i) how many read at least one of the three magazines ii) how
many read magazine C only?

44. In an examination, 80% students passed in Mathematics, 72% passed in

Science and 13% failed in both the subjects, if 312 students passed in both the
subjects. Find the total number of students who appeared in the examination.

45. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8}, A = {2, 3, 4}, B = {3, 4, 5}. Show that (A ∪ B)’
= A’ ∩ B’ and (A ∩ B)’ = A’ ∪ B’.

46. In a survey of 400 students in a school, 100 were listed as taking apple
juice. 150 as taking orange juice and 75 were listed as taking both apple as well
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as orange juice. Find how many students were taking neither apple juice nor
orange juice.

47. Show that A ∪ B = A ∩ B implies A = B.

48. A survey shows that 63% of the people watch a News channel whereas 76%
watch another channel. If x% of the people watch both channel, then find the
interval in which x lies.

49. In a town of 840 persons, 450 persons read Hindi, 300 read English and 200
read both. Then find the number of persons who read neither Hindi nor English.

50. In a survey it was found that 21 people liked product A, 26 liked product B
and 29 liked product C. If 14 people liked products A & B, 12 people liked
products C & A, 14 people liked products B & C and 8 liked all the three
products. Find how many liked product C only.

integer and a divisor of 9} (ii) {x:x ∈ Z and |x| ≤ 2} (iii) {x:x is a letter of the
51. Describe each of the following sets in Roster form: (i) {x:x is a positive

word 'PROPORTION'} (iv) {x:x = n/n2+1 and 1 ≤ n ≤ 3, where n ∈ N}.

52. Classify the following as finite and infinite sets.

(ii) A = {x : x ∈ N, x > 1}
(i) The set of days in a week

(iii) B = {x : x is an even prime number}

(v) P = {x : x ∈ Z, x < -1}

(iv) D = {x : x is a factor of 30}

(i) A = {2} B = {x : x ∈ N, x is an even prime number}

53. Are the following pairs of sets equal?

(ii) P = {1, 4, 9} Q = {x : x = n², n ∈ N, n ≤ 3}

(iii) X = {x : x ∈ W, x < 5} Y = {x : x ∈ N, x ≤ 5}
(iv) M = {a, b, c, d} N = {p, q, r, s}
(v) D = {x : x is a multiple of 30} E = {x : x is a factor of 10}

54. Write each of the following sets in the shortest possible way:
(i) {2, 7, 7, 2, 3, 7, 8}
(ii) {10 - 5, 20 - 15, 30 - 25, 40 - 35, 37 - 32}
(iii) {2 + 8, 3 + 7, 4 + 6, 5 + 5, 6 + 4, 7 + 3}
(iv) 3, 5, 15, 45, 75 and 90

55. Let X = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. If n represent any member of X, express the

following as sets:
(i) n + 5 = 8
(ii) n is greater than 4

56. Write the following sets in the roster form.

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(ii) C = {x :x² + 7x – 8 = 0, x ∈ R}
(i) A = {x | x is a positive integer less than 10 and 2x – 1 is an odd number}

Find A’, B’, A’ ∩ B’, A ∪ B and hence show that (A ∪ B )’ = A’ ∩ B’

57. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, A = {2, 3} and B = {3, 4, 5}.

58. (i) Write the solution set of the equation x² + x – 2 = 0 in roster form. (ii)
Write the set {x : x is a positive integer and x 2 < 40} in the roster form.

59. Write the set A = {1, 4, 9, 16, 25, . . . }in set-builder form.

60. Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} and B = { 2, 3, 5, 7 }. Find A ∩ B and

hence show that A ∩ B = B.

61. Let A = { 2, 4, 6, 8} and B = { 6, 8, 10, 12}. Find A ∪ B.

62. Let A = { a, e, i, o, u } and B = { a, i, u }. Show that A ∪ B = A

63. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} and A = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}. Find A′.

(i) A = {x: x2 − 3 = 0 And x is rational} (ii) B = {x ∈ R: 0 < x< 1}

64. Which of the following sets are empty sets?

65. Write down all possible subsets of each of the following sets:
(i) {1, {1}} (ii) {1,2,3}

(i) {x: x ∈ R, −12 < x < −10} (ii) {x: x ∈ R, 3 ≤ x ≤ 4}

66. Write the following as intervals:

67. What Universal Set would you propose for each of the following:
(i)the set of isosceles triangles? (ii) the set of right-angle triangles.

68. Let 𝑈 = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, 𝐴 = {2,4,6,8} 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵 = {2,3,5,7}. 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦

𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡,
(𝑖)(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵)′ = 𝐴′ ∩ 𝐵′ (𝑖𝑖)(𝐴 ∩ 𝐵)′ = 𝐴′ ∪ 𝐵′.

69. Let A and B be two sets. Prove that (𝐴 − 𝐵) ∪ 𝐵 = 𝐴 𝑖𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑓 𝐵 ⊂ A.

(i)𝐴 = {𝑥: 𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 "𝐿𝑂𝑌𝐴𝐿"} B = {𝑥: 𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒

70. 10. Which of the following pairs of sets are equal? Justify your answer

𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 "𝐴𝐿𝐿𝑂𝑌"}.
(ii) A = {𝑥: 𝑥 𝜖 𝑍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ≤ 8 } B = {𝑥: 𝑥 𝜖 𝑅, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 − 4𝑥 + 3 = 0}

71. A market research group conducted a survey of 1000 consumers and

reported that 720 consumers like product A and 450 consumers like product B,
what is the least number that must have liked both products?
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72. In a committee, 50 people speak French, 20 speak Spanish and 10 speak
both
Spanish and French. How many speak at least one of these two languages?

(i) (A ∪ B) , (ii) A ∩ B, (iii) (A ∩ B)’, (iv) A’∪ B’

73. Draw appropriate Venn diagram for each of the following :

74. In a group of 84 persons, each plays at least one game out of three viz.
tennis, badminton and cricket. 28 of them play cricket, 40 play tennis and 48
play badminton. If 6 play both cricket and badminton and 4 play tennis and
badminton and no one plays all the three games, find the number of persons
who play cricket but not tennis. What is the importance of sports in daily life?

75. In a class, 18 students took Physics, 23 students took Chemistry and 24

students took Mathematics of these 13 took both Chemistry and Mathematics,
12 took both Physics and Chemistry and 11 took both Physics and Mathematics.
If 6 students offered all the three subjects, find:
(i) The total number of students. (ii) How many took Maths but not Chemistry.

76. If A is the set of all divisors of the number 15. B is the set of prime numbers

value of (A ∪ C) ∩ B.
smaller than 10 and C is the set of even number smaller than 9, then find the

77. If x = {4n – 3n – 1 : n ∈ N}, y = {9 (n-1) : n ∈ N}. Find the value of X ∪ Y.

78. A survey show that 63% people watch news channel A whereas 76% people
watch news channel B. If x% of people watch both news channels, then prove
that 39 ≤ x ≤ 63 .

79. Write the following sets in the roaster form. (i) A = {x | x is a positive

∈ R}
integer less than 10 and 2x – 1 is an odd number} (ii) C = {x:x 2 + 7x – 8 = 0, x

∪ N) = (L – M) ∩ (L – N).
80. Given L = {1, 2, 3, 4}, M = {3, 4, 5, 6} and N = {1, 3, 5} Verify that L – (M

81. If A and B are subsets of the universal set U, then show that (i) A ⊂ A ∪ B (ii)
A ⊂ B ⇔ A ∪ B = B (iii) (A ∩ B) ⊂ A 7. Given that N = {1, 2, 3, ... , 100}. Then
write (i) the subset of N whose elements are even numbers. (ii) the subset of N
whose element are perfect square numbers.

82. Given that N = {1, 2, 3, ... , 100}. Then write (i) the subset of N whose
elements are even numbers. (ii) the subset of N whose element are perfect
square numbers.

83. If X = {1, 2, 3}, if n represents any member of X, write the following sets
containing all numbers represented by (i) 4n (ii) n + 6 (iii)2 n (iv) n – 1
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84. For all sets A, B and C, show that (A – B) ∩ (C – B) = A – (B ∪ C).

85. For all sets A and B, A ∪ (B – A) = A ∪ B

86. For all sets A and B, A – (A – B) = A ∩ B

87. For all sets A and B, A – (A ∩ B) = A – B

88. For all sets A and B, (A ∪ B) – B = A – B

89. Given that N = {1, 2, 3, …,100}, then write the subset A of N, whose
elements are odd numbers.

∈ N (N = {1, 2, 3,..100}.
90. Write the subset B of N, whose elements are represented by x + 2, where x

91. Write the following sets in roster form: A = {x: x is an integer and –3 ≤ x <
7} B = {x: x is a natural number less than 6}

92. Write (–5,9] in set-builder form.

93. List all subsets of the set {-1,0,1}

[Link] the set of natural numbers as the universal set, write down the
complements of the set: {x: x is an even natural number}

95. Write the set A = {x: 𝐱𝟐+𝟕𝐱−𝟖=𝟎 ,𝐱∈𝐑} in roster form.

96. Prove that for all sets A and B,𝐀− 𝐀−𝐁 =𝐀∩𝐁

97. Express the following intervals as a set in set builder form: (i) (2, 7) (ii) [-4,
4)

98. Let U be the set of all triangles in a plane. If A is the set of all triangles with
at least one angle different from 60 degree, What is Ai

99. Write the given set using set builder method: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81,
100, 121,144

100. Write the compliment of the given set A = {x:x is positive multiple of 3, x ∈
N}.

101. Let U = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A= 2,3 and B= 3, 4, 5. Show that A ∪ B′ = A′ ∩ B′

102. Write the set { x : x is positive integer and x2 < 40} in the roaster form.
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103. Is the set A={x:x3=8 and 2x+3=0} empty? Justify.

104. Write the following intervals in set - builder form: (i) (-3, 0) (ii) (6, 12].

105. Let V = {a, e, i, o, u} and B = {a, i, k, u}. Find V - B and B - V.

106. Show that (A ∪ B) − A ∩ B = A − B ∪ (B − A)

107. Which of the following are sets? Justify your answer. (i) The collection of all
the months of a year beginning with letter M. (ii) The collection of difficult topics
in Mathematics.

108. (i) Write the set A = {x:x is an integer, - 1 ≤ x < 4} in roster form. (ii) Write
the set B = {3, 9, 27, 81} in set-builder form.

(i) A = {x:x ∈ Nand 3 < x < 4} (ii) B = {x:x ∈ N and x² = x}

109. Which of the following are empty sets? Justify.

(i) The set of all the points on the circumference of a circle. (ii) B = {x:x ∈ N, x
110. The following sets are finite or infinite? Justify.

is an even prime number}

111. Are sets A = {- 2, 2}, B = {x:x ∈ Z, x² - 4 = 0} equal? Why?

112. Write (-5,9] in set - builder form.

113. Write {x:x ∈ R, - 3 ≤ x < 7} as interval.

114. If A = {1, 3, 5} how many elements has P(A)?

115. Write all the possible subsets of A = {5, 6}

116. If A = {3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21}, B = { 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 }, C = { 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,

12, 14, 16 }, D = {5,
10, 15, 20 }; find
(i) A – B (ii) A – C (iii) A – D (iv) B – A

(M ⋃ N) = (L − M) ⋂ (L − N).
117. If L = {1, 2, 3, 4}, M = {3, 4, 5, 6} and N = {1, 3, 5}, then verify that L −

118. Find the power sets of the following sets X = {{ɸ}}; Y= {ɸ, {ɸ}}.

119. In a school there are 20 teachers who teach mathematics or physics. Of

these, 12 teach
mathematics and 4 teach both physics and mathematics. How many teach
physics?
(a) 20 (b) 12 (c) 16 (d) 4
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120. If S = {x | x is a positive multiple of 3 less than 100} and P = {x | x is a
prime number less than
20}. Then, n(S) + n(P) is equal to
(a) 34 (b) 31 (c) 33 (d) 41

121. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, B = {3, 4, 5, 6}, C = {5, 6, 7, 8 } and D = { 7, 8, 9,

10 }; find (i) A ∩ (B U C)
(ii) A ∩ (B U D) (iii) ( A ∩ B ) ∩ ( B U C ) (iv) ( A U D) ∩ ( B U C)

122. If R = {(x, y) : x, y ∈ Z, x2 + y2 = 64}, then, write R in roster form.

123. Let A = {1, 2}, B = {2, 3, 4}, C = {4, 5}. Find A × (B ∩ C)

124. If A = {1, 3, 5}, how many elements has P(A).

125. In a survey of 425 students in a school, it was found that 115 drink apple
juice, 160 drink orange juice and 80 drink both apple as well as orange juice.
How many drink neither apple juice nor orange juice?

126. A school awarded 42 medals in hockey, 18 in basketball and 23 in cricket.

If these medals were bagged by a total of 65 students and only 4 students got
medals in all the three sports, how many students received medals in exactly
two of the three sports?

127. Describe the following set in set builder form A= {53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73,
79, 83, 89, 97}.

128. In a group of 52 persons, 16 drink tea but not coffee and 33 drink tea. Find
(i) how many drink tea and coffee both; (ii) how many drink coffee but not tea.

129. Let A = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, B = { 2, 4, 6, 8 }. Find A – B and B – A.

130. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, A = {2, 4, 6, 8} and B = { 2, 3, 5, 7}.

Verify that (A U B)′ = A′∩ B′

131. Given L = {1, 2, 3, 4}, M = {3, 4, 5, 6} and N = {1, 3, 5} Verify that L – (M

U N) = (L – M) ∩ (L – N)

SECTION C
SHORT ANSWERS:

1. Given A = {1, 3}, B = {3, 5} and C = {5, 10}. Verify the following relations:
(i) A X B ≠ B X A (ii) A X (B U C) = (A X B) U (A X C) (iii) A X (B ∩ C) = (A X B) ∩
(A X C).
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2. n (U) = 30, n (Aˊ) = 15, n (B) = 5, n (A ∩ B) = 3. Find: (i) n (A) (ii) n (A ∪ B)
(iii) n (A - B)

3. In class XI of a certain school, 50 students eat burger and 42 students eat

noodles in lunch time. If 24 students eat both burger and noodles, find the
number of students who eat: (i) Burger only (ii) Noodles only (iii) Any of the two
food items.

4. (i) Write the following set in the roaster form. A = {x|x is a positive integer
less than 10 and 2x – 1 is an odd number}. (ii) Write the following in set - builder
form. A = {3, 9, 27, 81}. (iii) If the universal set U = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15,
17}, B = {1, 3, 7,13,15}, then find B’.

5. There are 200 individuals with a skin disorder, 120 had been exposed to
chemical C1, 50 to chemical C2, and 30 to both chemicals C1 and C2. Find the
number of individuals exposed to Chemical C 1, but not chemical C2 (ii) Chemical
C2 but not chemical C1, (iii) Chemical C1 or chemical C2.

3, where n ∈ N}. (ii) Write the following in set – builder form: E = {1/2, 2/3, ¾,
6. (i) Write the following set in the roaster form: H = {x:x = n/n 2+1 and 1 ≤ n ≤

4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 8/9, 9/10}. (iii) Write the following in interval form: {x:x ∈ R, -
4 ≤ x ≤ 6}.

7. (i) Write the following sets in the roaster form: N = {x:x 4 – 5x2 + 6 = 0, x ∈
R}. (ii) Write the following in set builder form: F = {1, ¼, 1/9, 1/16, 1/25, ……}.
(iii) If A is a finite set containing n elements, then how many subsets of set A are
obtained?

8. Prove that: (i) (∪ni=1 Ai)’ = ∩ni=1 Ai’ (ii) (∩ni=1 Ai)’ = ∪ni=1 Ai’

9. From 50 students taking examinations in Mathematics, Physics and

Chemistry, each of the student has passed in at least one of the subject, 37
passed Mathematics, 24 Physics and 43 Chemistry. At most 19 passed
Mathematics and Physics, at most 29 Mathematics and Chemistry and at most
20 Physics and Chemistry. What is the largest possible number that could have
passed all three examinations?

10. List all the elements of the following sets: (i) A = {x/x 2 ≤ 10, x ∈ Z} (ii) B =
{x:x = 1/2n - 1, 1 ≤ n ≤ 5} (iii) {C = x:x is an integer, ½ < x < 9/2} (iv) D =
{x:x is a vowel in the word "EQUATION"} (v) E = {x:x is a month of a year not
having 31 days} (vi) F = {x:x is a letter of the word "MISSISSIPPI"}.

concentric circles in a plane. (ii) Set of letters of the English Alphabets. (iii) {x ∈
11. Which of the following sets are finite and which are infinite? (i) Set of

N : x > 5} (iv) {x ∈ N : x < 200} (v) {x ∈ Z : x < 5} (vi) {x ∈ R : 0 < x < 1}.
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true or false. (i) 1∈ A
12. Let A = {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5}, {6, 7, 8}}. Determine which of the following is

(ii) {1, 2, 3} ⊂ A (iii) {6, 7, 8} ∈ A (iv) {{4, 5}} ⊂ A (v) ɸ ∈ Α (vi) ɸ ⊂ A.

13. Let A = {x:x ∈ N}, B = {x:x = 2n, n ∈ N}, C = {x:x = 2n - 1, n ∈ N} and, D

= {x:x is a prime natural number}. Find: (i) A ∩ B (ii) A ∩ C (iii) A ∩ D (iv) B ∩ C
(v) B ∩ D (vi) C ∩ D.

14. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, B = {2, 4, 8} and C = {3,

4, 5, 6} (i) A' (ii) B'
(iii) (A ∩ C)' (iv) (A ∩ B)' (v) (A')' (vi) (B - C)'.

15. Using properties of sets, show that for any two sets A and B, (A ∪ B) ∩ (A ∪
B’) = A.

16. In a town of 10,000 families it was found that 40% families buy newspaper
A, 20% families buy
newspaper B and 10% families buy newspaper C. 5% families buy A and B , 3%
buy B and C and 4%
buy A and C. If 2% families buy all the three news papers, find the number of
families which buy (i) A only (ii) B only (iii) none of A, B and C.

17. Let A and B be two sets such that: n (A) = 20, n (A ∪ N) = 42 and n (A
∩ B) = 4. Find: (i) n (B) (ii) n (A – B) (iii) n (B – A).

18. Which of the following are well-defined sets?

(i) All the colors in the rainbow.
(ii) All the points that lie on a straight line.
(iii) All the honest members in the family.
(iv) All the efficient doctors of the hospital.
(v) All the hardworking teachers in a school.
(vi) All the prime numbers less than 100

(i) A = {x : x ∈ W, x ≤ 5}
19. Write the following sets in the roster form.

(ii) B = {x : x ∈ I, -3 < x < 3}

(iv) D = {x : x = 3p, p ∈ W, p ≤ 3}
(iii) C = {x : x is divisible by 12}

(v) E = {x : x = a², a ∈ N, 3 < a < 7}

(vi) F = {x : x = n/(n + 1), n ∈ N and n ≤ 4}

20. Which of the following are the examples of an empty set?

(i) The set of even natural numbers divisible by 3.

(iii) {x : x ∈ N, 5 < x < 6}

(ii) The set of all prime numbers divisible by 2.

(iv) The set of odd natural numbers divisible by 2.

(vi) Q = {x : x = 2n + 3, n ∈ W, n ≤ 5}
(v) P = {x : x is a prime number, 54 < x < 58}
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21. Which of the following are equivalent sets?
(i) A = {1, 2, 3} B = {4, 5}

(iii) X = {x : x is a prime number less than 10} Y = {x : x ∈ N, x ≤ 4}

(ii) P = {q, s, m} Q = {6, 9, 12}

(iv) R = {x : x = 2n + 3, n < 4, n ∈ N} S = {x : x = n/(n + 1), n ∈ R, n ≤ 4}

(v) The set of vowels in the English alphabet
(vi) The set of consonants in the English alphabet

(i) A = {x : x ∈ I, 2 < x < 7}

22. Find the cardinal number of the following sets.

(ii) B = {x : n ∈ N, x = n², n < 3}

(iv) C = {x : x ∈ Z⁺, x < 100}

(iii) The set of months in a year

(v) D = {x : x = n³, n ∈ W, n < 5}

(vi) The set of letters in the word MALAYALAM

23. If A = Set of natural numbers, B = Set of prime numbers and C = Set of

even prime numbers. Draw Venn-diagram showing the relationship among the
given sets A, B and C.

24. Let M = {Natural numbers between 10 and 40; each divisible by 3}, N =
{Natural numbers up to 40; each divisible by 4}. Draw a Venn-diagram showing
the relationship between sets M and set N.

25. Show by Venn diagrams the relationship between the following sets: A = Set
of natural numbers, B = Set of prime numbers, C = Set of even prime numbers.
Draw a Venn-diagram showing the relationship among the given sets A, B and
C.

26. Let M = {Natural numbers between 10 and 40; each divisible by 3}, N =
{Natural numbers up to 40; each divisible by 4}. Draw a Venn-diagram showing
the relationship between sets M and N.

(i) A = {𝑥: 𝑥𝜖 𝑍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 x2− 5𝑥 + 6 = 0} (ii) 𝐵 = {𝑥: 𝑥 𝜖 𝑍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 x2 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛} (iii) C

27. Which of the following sets are finite and which are infinite:

= {𝑥 ∶ 𝑥 𝜖 𝑍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 > −10}

28. Let 𝑈 = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, 𝐴 = {1,2,3,4}, B = {2,4,6,8}, C = {3,4,5,6}.

Find (i) (𝐴 ∩ 𝐶)′ (𝑖𝑖)(𝐴’)′ (𝑖𝑖𝑖) (𝐵 − 𝐶)′

29. Write the following sets in the roaster from (i) A = {x : x ∈ R, 2x + 11 = 15}
(ii) B = {x | x2 = x, x ∈ R} (iii) C = {x | x is a positive factor of a prime number
p}

30. If X and Y are subsets of the universal set U, then show that (i) Y ⊂ X ∪ Y (ii)
X ∩ Y ⊂ X (iii) X ⊂ Y ⇒ X ∩ Y = X.
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sets, containing all the elements satisfying the given conditions. (i) a ∈ Y but a2
31. If Y = {1, 2, 3, ... 10}, and a represents any element of Y, write the following

∉ Y (ii) a + 1 = 6, a ∈ Y (iii) a is less than 6 and a ∈ Y.

S ⊂ P.
32. Let P be the set of prime numbers and let S={t:2 t−1 is a prime }. Prove that

33. Let A = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9} Insert the appropriate symbol ∈ or ∉ in blank spaces:

(i) 2 ___ A (ii) {3} ___ A (iii) {3, 5} ___ A.

34. A = Set of letters of the word 'DELHI' and B = the set of letters the words

(i) A ∪ B (ii) A ∩ B (iii) A - B

'DOLL' find

35. Let A, B and C be sets, then using properties of sets, show that A U (B ∩ C)
= (A U B) ∩ (A U C).

SECTION D
LONG ANSWERS:

1. In a group of 50 students, the number of students studying French, English,

Sanskrit were found
to be as follows : French = 17, English = 13, Sanskrit = 15, French and English
= 9, English and Sanskrit = 4, French and Sanskrit = 5, English, French and
Sanskrit = 3. Find the number of students who study (i) French only (ii) English
only (iii) Sanskrit only (iv) English and Sanskrit but not French (v) French and
Sanskrit but not English.

2. Write the following sets in set builder form:- (i) {5, 25, 125, 625} (ii) {1/2,
2/3, 3/4, 4/5………} (iii) Write the power of set of A where A = {-1,0,2} (iv) U=
{1,2,3………40} and A = { x:x is a factor of 42}. Write n(A) ? (v) If A = {4,6,8} ,
Find all subsets of A.

3. It is known that in a group of people , each of whom speak at least one of the
language English, Hindi and Bengali; 31 speak English, 36 speak Hindi and 27
speak Bengali. 10 speak both English and Hindi, 9 both English and Bengali, 11
both Hindi and Bengali. Using a Venn diagram or otherwise , prove that the
group contains at least 64 people and not more than 73 people.

4. In a survey of 25 students, it was found that 15 had taken mathematics, 12

had taken physics and 11 had taken chemistry, 5 had taken mathematics and
chemistry, 9 had taken mathematics and physics, 4 had taken physics and
chemistry and 3 had taken all the 3 subjects. Find the number of students that
had (i) only chemistry,(ii) physics and chemistry, but not mathematics, (iii) only
one of the subjects, (iv) at least one of the three subjects, (v) none of the
subjects. (vi) Only Mathematics
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(vii) Only Physics (viii) Mathematics and Physics but not Chemistry

5. Describe the following sets in Roster form: (i) {x:x is a letter before e in the

(ii) {x ∈ N : x² < 25} (iii) {x ∈ N: x is a prime number, 10 < x < 20} (iv) {x ∈ N :
English alphabet}.

x = 2n, n ∈ N}
(v) {x ∈ N : x > x} (vi) {x: x is a prime number which is a divisor of 60}. (vii)
{x:x is a two digit number such that the sum of its digits is 8} (viii) The set of all
letters in the word ‘Trigonometry’.
(ix) The set of all letters in the word ‘Better’. (x) The set of all letters in the word
“Principal”.

6. Describe the following sets in set-builder form: (i) a = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} (ii) B

= {1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/4,…..} (iii) C = {0, 3, 6, 9, 12,……} (iv) D = {10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15} (v) E = {0} (vi) {1, 4, 9, 16,……., 100} (vii) {2, 4, 6, 8,……..} (viii)
{5, 25, 125, 625}

(i) {x:x ∈ R, - 4 < x ≤ 6} (ii) {x:x ∈ R, - 12 < x < - 10} (iii) {x:x ∈ R, 0 ≤ x < 7}
7. Write the following subsets of R as intervals:

(iv) {x:x ∈ R, 3 ≤ x ≤ 4} Also, find the length of each interval.

why? (i) {c, d} ⊂ A (ii) {c, d} ∈ A (iii) {{c, d}} ⊂ A (iv) a ∈ A (v) a ⊂ A (vi)
8. Let A = {a, b, {c, d}, e} Which of the following statements are false and

{a, b, e} ⊂ A (vii) {a, b, e} ∈ A (viii) {a, b, c} ⊂ A (ix) ɸ∈ A (x) {ɸ} ⊂ A

(i) ɸ ∈ A
9. Let A= ɸ, {ɸ}, 1, {1, ɸ, 2} Which of the following are true?

(ii) {ɸ} ∈ A
(iii) {1} ∈ A
(iv) {2, ɸ} ⊂ A
(v) 2 ⊂ A
(vi) {2, {1}} ⊄ A
(vii) {{2}, {1}} ⊄ A
(viii) {ɸ, {ɸ}, {1, ɸ}} ⊂ A
(ix) {{ɸ}} ⊂ A

10. Write the following sets in the set builder form.

(i) A = {2, 4, 6, 8}
(ii) B = {3, 9, 27, 81}
(iii) C = {1, 4, 9, 16, 25}
(iv) D = {1, 3, 5, ......}
(v) E = {4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, ......., 52}
(vi) F = {-10, ......, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, …..., 5}
(vii) G = {O}
(viii) P = { }
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11. Let A = set of natural numbers less than 8, B = {even natural numbers less
than 12}, C = {Multiples of 3 between 5 and 15}, and D = {Multiples of 4

(i) (B ∩ D) ∪ C
greater than 6 and less than 20}; Find:

(ii) A ∪ D
(iii) C ∪ D

(v) (B ∩ C) ∪ A
(iv) A ∩ C

(vi) (D ∪ A) ∩ B
(vii) (A ∩ C) ∪ ?
(viii) (B ∪ D) ∩ (C ∪ A)

12. If A = {5, 7, 8, 9}, B = {3, 4, 5, 6} and C = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10}; where n is total

number of distinct elements in a set. Find:

(ii) n (A ∪ B)
(i) n (A) + n (B)

(iv) n (A ∪ B) + n (A ∩ B)
(iii) n (A ∩ B)

(vi) n (A) + n (B) = n (A ∪ B) + n (A ∩ B)?

(v) n (B) + n (C) – n (B ∩ C)

(vii) Is n (B ∪ C) = n (B) + n (C) – n (B ∩ C)?

13. Find the cardinal number of the following sets:

(i) { }
(ii) {0}
(iii) {3, 7, 11, 15}
(iv) {3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5}
(v) {x : x is a letter in the word ‘STATISTICS’}

(vii) {x : x ∈ N and x² < 50}

(vi) {x : x is an odd whole number less than 12}

(viii) {x : x is a factor of 12}

14. Show by Venn diagrams the relationship between the following pairs of sets:
(i) X = {letters of English alphabet up to ‘h’}; Y = {all the vowels of English
alphabet}
(ii) A = {even numbers less than 10}; B = {-1abers less than 10}
(iii) C = {multiple of 5 less than 30}; D = {multiple of 3 less than 20}
(iv) M = {all girls of your school}; N = {all boys of your school}
(v) P = {boys who play hockey}; Q = {boys who play cricket}
(vi) R = {people who speak Hindi}; S = {people who speak Tamil}
(vii) U = {people who live in India}; V = {people who live in Bihar}
(viii) E = {men}; F = {kings}
(ix) S = {all animals}; T = {people who wear shirts}

15. For all sets A, B and C. Is (A - B) ∩ (C – B) = (A ∩ C) – B? Justify your answer.

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16. A, B and C are subset of universal set U. If A = {2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20}, B = {3,
6, 9, 12, 15}, C = {5, 10, 15, 20} and U is the set of all whole numbers. Draw a
Venn diagram showing the relation of U, A, B and C.

17. In a group of students, 100 students know Hindi, 50 know English and 25
know both. Each of the students knows either Hindi or English. How many
students are there in the group?

18. If A = {3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21}, B = { 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 }, C = { 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,

12, 14, 16 }, D = {5, 10, 15, 20 }; find (i) A – B (ii) A – C (iii) A – D (iv) B – A (v) C
– A (vi) D – A (vii) B – C (viii) B – D
(ix) C – B (x) D – B (xi) C – D (xii) D – C

19. In a town of 10,000 families it was found that 40% families buy newspaper
A, 20% families buy newspaper B and 10% families by newspaper C. 5% families
buy A and B, 3%, buy B and C and 4% buy A and C. If 2% families buy all the
three newspapers, find the no of families which buy, (i) A only (ii) B only (iii)
none of A, B and C (iv) exactly two newspapers (v) exactly one newspaper (vi) A
and C but not B (vii) at least one of A, В, С. What is the importance of reading
newspaper?

(i) (A ∪ B) ∩ (A ∪ Β') = A
20. Using properties of sets and their complements prove that

(iii) (A ∪ B) - C = (A - C) ∪ (B - C)
(ii) A - (A ∩ B) = A - B

(iv) A - (B ∪ C) = (A - B) (A - C)
(v) A ∩ (B - C) = (A ∩ B) - (A ∩ C).

your answer. (i) 35 ∈ {x | x has exactly four positive factors}. (ii) 128 ∈ {y | the
21. State which of the following statements are true and which are false. Justify

sum of all the positive factors of y is 2y} (iii) 3 ∉ {x | x4 – 5x3 + 2x2 – 112x + 6
= 0} (iv) 496 ∉ {y | the sum of all the positive factors of y is 2y}.

22. Let U be the set of all boys and girls in a school, G be the set of all girls in
the school, B be the set of all boys in the school, and S be the set of all students
in the school who take swimming. Some, but not all, students in the school take
swimming. Draw a Venn diagram showing one of the possible interrelationship
among sets U, G, B and S.

23. For all sets A, B and C. Is (A- B)∩ C−B = A∩C −B? Justify your answer.

24. In a class, 36 students offered physics, 48 students offered chemistry and

50 students offered
mathematics. Of these, 13 are in both chemistry and mathematics; 26 in
physics and chemistry;
11 in mathematics and physics and 6 in all the subjects. Find
(i) how many students are there in the class
(ii) how many students offered only mathematics and
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(iii) how many students are taking exactly two of the three subjects.

25. A class has 175 students. The following description gives the number of
students studying one or more of the subjects in this class. Mathematics 100;
Physics 70; Chemistry 46; Mathematics and Physics 30; Mathematics and
Chemistry 28; Physics and Chemistry 23; Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
18. Find (i) how many students are enrolled in Mathematics alone; Physics alone
and Chemistry alone. (ii) the number of students who have not offered any of
these subjects.

SECTION E
CASE BASED QUESTIONS:

1. A class teacher Mamta Sharma of class XI write three sets A, B and C are such
that A = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}, B = {2, 4, 6, 8} and C = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11}.
Answer the following questions which are based on above sets.
(i) Find A ∩ B.
(a) {3, 5, 7} (b) ɸ (c) {1, 5, 7} (d) {2, 5, 7}

(ii) Find A ∩ C
(a) {3, 5, 7} (b) ɸ (c) {1, 5, 7} (d) {3, 4, 7}

(a) A ∩ B = ɸ (b) A ∩ B ≠ ɸ (c) A ∪ B = ɸ (d) A ∪ B ≠ ɸ

(iii) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and B to be disjoint?

(a) A ∩ C = ɸ (b) A ∩ C ≠ ɸ (c) A ∪ C = ɸ (d) A ∪ C ≠ ɸ

(iv) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and C to be intersecting?

(v) Write the n [P (B)].

(a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 16 (d) 12

(vi) Find A∪B.

(a){1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} (b){1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} (c){1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9} (d)
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9}

2. The school organised a farewell party for 100 students and school
management decided three types of drinks will be distributed in farewell party
i.e. Milk (M), Coffee (C) and Tea (T). Organiser reported that 10 students had all
the three drinks M,C,T. 20 students had M and C; 30 students had C and T; 25
students had M and T. 12 students had M only; 5 students had C only; 8
students had T only.
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Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) The number of students who did not take any drink, is
(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 10 (d) 25

(ii) The number of students who prefer Milk is

(a) 47 (b) 45 (c) 53 (d) 50

(iii) The number of students who prefer Coffee is

(a) 47 (b) 53 (c) 45 (d) 50

(iv) The number of students who prefer Tea is

(a) 51 (b) 53 (c) 50 (d) 47

(v) The number of students who prefer Milk and Coffee but not tea is
(a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 20

3. In a library, 25 students read physics, chemistry and mathematics books. It

was found that 15 students read mathematics, 12 students read physics while
11 students read chemistry. 5 students read both mathematics and chemistry, 9
students read physics and mathematics. 4 students read physics and chemistry
and 3 students read all three subject books.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) The number of students who reading only chemistry is
(a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 1

(ii) The number of students who reading only mathematics is

(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 11

(iii) The number of students who reading only one of the subjects is
(a) 5 (b) 8 (c) 11 (d) 6

(iv) The number of students who reading atleast one of the subject is
(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 23 (d) 21
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(v) The number of students who reading none of the subject is
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5

4. In an University, out of 100 students 15 students offered Mathematics only,

12 students offered Statistics only, 8 students offered only Physics, 40 students
offered Physics and Mathematics, 20 students offered Physics and Statistics, 10
students offered Mathematics and Statistics, 65 students offered Physics.
Based on the above information answer the following questions
(i) The number of students who offered all the three subjects is
(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 5

(ii) The number of students who offered Mathematics is

(a) 62 (b) 65 (c) 55 (d) 60

(iii) The number of students who offered statistics is

(a) 31 (b) 35 (c) 39 (d) 34

(iv) The number of students who offered mathematics and statistics but not
physics is
(a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 5 (d) 4

(v) The number of students who did not offer any of the above three subjects is
(a) 4 (b) 1 (c) 5 (d) 3

5. The school organised a cultural event for 100 students. In the event, 15
students participated in dance, drama and singing. 25 students participated in
dance and drama; 20 students participated in drama and singing; 30 students
participated in dance and singing. 8 students participated in dance only; 5
students in drama only and 12 students in singing only.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) The number of students who participated in dance, is
(a) 18 (b) 30 (c) 40 (d) 48

(ii) The number of students who participated in drama, is

(a) 35 (b) 30 (c) 25 (d) 20

(iii) The number of students who participated in singing, is

(a) 42 (b) 45 (c) 47 (d) 37
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(iv) The number of students who participated in dance and drama but not in
singing, is
(a) 20 (b) 5 (c) 10 (d) 15

(v) The number of students who did not participate in any of the events, is
(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 25 (d) 35

6. In a company, 100 employees offered to do a work. In out of them, 10

employees offered ground floor only, 15 employees offered first floor only, 10
employees offered second floor only, 30 employees offered second floor and
ground floor to work, 25 employees offered first and second floor, 15 employees
offered ground and first floor, 60 employees offered second floor.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) The number of employees who offered all three floors.
(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 6

(ii) The number of employees who offered ground floor.

(a) 50 (b) 60 (c) 65 (d) 70

(iii) The number of employees who offered first floor.

(a) 40 (b) 45 (c) 50 (d) 55

(iv) The number of employees who offered ground and first floor but not second
floor.
(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 25

(v) The number of employees who did not offer any of the above three floors.
(a) 15 (b) 10 (c) 5 (d) 0

7. In a city of 56,000 people, following is the number of fans of players Rohit (R),
Virat (V) and
Dhoni (D):
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PLAYERS NUMBER OF FANS
ROHIT 23000
VIRAT 25000
DHONI 18000
ROHIT AND VIRAT 12000
ROHIT AND DHONI 10000
VIRAT AND DHONI 8000
ROHIT, VIRAT AND DHONI 3000
Based on the above information, answer the following:
(i) How many people are fans of at least 2 players?
(ii) How many people are fans of exactly 1 player?
(iii) How many people are fans of exactly 2 players?
(iv) How many people follow R or V but not D?

8. In class XI of one International school in Hyderabad, there are 200 students

out of which 80 have taken Mathematics, 120 have taken Economics and 90
have taken Physical Education. If 50 have taken Mathematics and Economics,
60 have taken Economics and Physical Education, 40 have taken Mathematics
and Economics.

If 20 students have taken all three subjects then on the basis of above
information answer the following:
(i) Find the number of students who have taken at least one of the subjects.
(ii) Find the number of students who have taken at most one of the subjects.
(iii) Find the number of students who has taken none of the subject.
(iv) Find the number of students who have taken exactly one subject.

9. A research group conducted a survey of 200 persons working in a chemical

factory with a skin disorder. It was found that 120 people had been exposed to
the chemical A, 50 to chemical B and 30 to both the chemical A and B.
Based on above information, answer the following questions:

(i) Number of individuals exposed to chemical A or B:

(a)120 (b) 140 (c) 80 (d) 170
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(ii) Number of individuals who are neither exposed to chemical A nor chemical B
(a) 60 (b) 140 (c) 80 (d) 30

(iii) Number of individuals exposed to chemical A only :

(a) 120 (b) 100 (c) 20 (d) 90

(iv) Number of individuals exposed to chemical B only :

(a) 120 (b) 30 (c) 20 (d) 50 (e) 3

(v) Which of following condition is true from given data:

(a) n (U) ≤ n (A U B) (b) n (A U B) = n (A) + n (B) (c) n (U) ≥ n (A U B) (d) n (A∩
B) = n (A) – n(B)

10. In D.A.V School, Bahadurgarh, a survey was done on 400 students it was
found that 100 like to take apple juice , 150 like to take orange juice and 75 like
both apple as well as orange juice.

Based on above information, answer the following questions:

(i) Number of students who like either of the drink:
(a) 400 (b) 175 (c) 250 (d) 325

(ii) Number of students who likes neither apple juice nor orange juice:
(a) 225 (b) 325 (c) 75 (d) 25

(iii) Number of students who likes only apple juice:

(a) 125 (b) 75 (c) 100 (d) 25

(iv) Number of students who likes only orange juice:

(a) 75 (b) 25 (c) 100 (d) 125

(v) Which information we get from the given data:

(a) n (A U B) = n (A) + n (B) (b) n (A U B ) < n (A Ո B)
(c) n (A U B) < n (U) (d) n (A Ո B) = n(A) + n (B)

11. Sneha and Maria are best friends. Sneha likes Mathematics while Maria likes
Statistics. They have created two non-empty sets A and B given by A = {x : x is
a letter in ‘I LOVE MATHEMATICS’} and B = {x : x is a letter in ‘I LOVE
STATISTICS’}.
Based on this information, answer the following questions.
(i) Which of the following is True?
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(a) A = B (b) A ⊂ B (c) B ⊂ A (d) All of the above

(ii) A ∪ B is equal to
(a) A (b) B (c) A ∩ B (d) None of the above

(a) A (b) B (c) A ∪ B (d) ɸ

(iii) A ∩ B is equal to

(iv) The number of elements in the sets A and B are respectively:

(a) 16, 15 (b) 15, 16 (c) 11, 9 (d) 9, 11

(v) Number of proper subsets of set B =

(a) 1023 (b) 1024 (c) 511 (d) 512

12. In a school at Bhubaneswar, students of class XI were forming some sets.

Two Students Ankita and Babita form two sets A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and B = {2, 4,
6}.

Based on the above information answer the following:

(i) Find A∪ B

(ii) Find A ∩ B

(iii) Find A-B AND B-A. Are they equal?

13. A class teacher Mamta Sharma of class XI write three sets A, B and C are
such that A = {1, 3, 5,7, 9}, B = {2, 4, 6, 8} and C = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11}.
Answer the following questions which are based on above sets.
(i) Find A ∩ B.
(a) {3, 5, 7} (b) φ (c) {1, 5, 7} (d) {2, 5, 7}

(ii) Find A ∩ C
(a) {3, 5, 7} (b) φ (c) {1, 5, 7} (d) {3, 4, 7}

(a) A ∩ B = φ (b) A ∩ B ≠φ (c) A∪B = φ (d) A∪B ≠φ

iii) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and B to be disjoint?

(a) A ∩ C = φ (b) A ∩ C ≠φ (c) A∪C = φ (d) A∪C ≠φ

(iv) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and C to be intersecting?

(v) Write the n[P (B)].

(a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 16 (d) 12
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14. Three friends were having get together. Suddenly they decided to play with
their names using sets. Name of friends were AARTI, CHARVI and AYSHA. They
asked each other the following questions.
(i) How letters used for AARTI are written in roster form as a set?
(a) {A, R, T, I} (b) {x:x is a letter of the word AARTI} (c) {A, T, I} (d) None of
these

(ii) What is the difference of set of letters of CHARVI and AYSHA?

(a) {C, R, V, I} (b) {C, S, V, I} (c) {C, T, V, I} (d) {C, V, I}

(𝑎){A, R, T, I, C, H, Y, V, S} (b) {A, R, T, I, C, H, V} (c) {A, R, C, H, V, Y, S} (d)

(iii)Form a union of sets taking the letters of names of friends.

None of these

(iv) Form a set of intersection of sets taking the letters of names of friends.
(a) {A} (b) {A, R, T, I, C, H, V} (c) {A, R, C, H, V, Y, S} (d) None of these

15. In a group of 50 students, number of students playing Hockey, Cricket and

football were found to be as follow:
Cricket 17
Football 13
Hockey 15
Cricket and Football 9
Football and Hockey 4
Hockey and Cricket 5
All three games 3

On the basis of above information, answer the following:

(i) Then number of students who play cricket only are :
(a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 5 (d) None of these.

(ii) Then number of students who play Hockey only are :

(a) 9 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) None of these

(iii) Then number of students who play Hockey and Cricket but not football:
(a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) None of these.

(iv) Then number of students who play atleast one of the three games
(a) 25 (b) 20 (c) 35 (d) 30

(v) Then number of students who play none of the three games
(a) 20 (b)22 (c) 25 (d) none of these

16. Subject wise result of 30 students of a class is mentioned as follows:

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15 students passed in English, 12 students passed in Mathematics, 8 students
passed in science, 6 students passed in English and Mathematics, 7 students
passed in Mathematics and science, 4 students passed in English and Science, 4
students passed in all three subjects.
On the basis of above information, answer the following:
(i) Then number of students who passed in English and Mathematics but not in
science.
(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) none of these.

(ii) Then number of students who passed in Science and Mathematics but not in
English
(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) none of these.

(iii) Then number of students who passed in Mathematics only.

(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) none of these.

(iv) Then number of students who passed in more than one subject.
(a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) none of these.

(v) Then number of students who passed in none of the three subjects.
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 9 (d) none of these

17. To check the understanding of sets, a Math teacher writes two sets A and B
having finite numbers of elements. The sum of cardinal numbers of two finite
sets A and B is 9. The ratio of a cardinal number of the power set of A is to a
cardinal number of the power set of B is 8:1.

(i) The cardinal number of set A is:

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 8

(ii) The cardinal number of set B is:

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 8

(iii) The maximum value of n (A U B) is:

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 9

(iv) The minimum value of n (A U B) is:

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 9

18. Out of 100 students; 15 passed in English, 12 passed in Mathematics, 8 in

Science, 6 in English
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and Mathematics, 7 in Mathematics and Science; 4 in English and Science; 4 in
all the three.
Find how many passed
(i) in English and Mathematics but not in Science

(ii) in Mathematics and Science but not in English

(iii) in Mathematics only

(iv) in more than one subject only

19. In a survey of 200 students of a school, it was found that 120 study
Mathematics, 90 study Physics and 70 study Chemistry, 40 study Mathematics
and Physics, 30 study Physics and Chemistry, 50 study Chemistry and
Mathematics and 20 none of these subjects.
Find the:
(i) number of students who study all the three subjects.

(ii) number of students who study exactly one subject.

(iii) number of students who study exactly two subjects.

20. Soniya, Payal, Geeta, and Ramesh are on the school hockey team while
Geeta, Manish, Pawan, and Ritu are on the school football team of a school. Let
X be the set of students who are on the hockey team and Y be the set of
students who are on a football team.

Answer the following questions:

(i) Find X ∪ Y.
(ii) Find X – Y.
(iii) Are X and Y disjoint sets? Justify your answer.
OR
What is the number of proper subsets of X? Given the number of elements in set
X

21. In a company, 100 employees offered to do a work. In out of them, 10

employees offered ground floor only, 15 employees offered first floor only, 10
employees offered second floor only, 30 employees offered second floor and
ground floor to work, 25 employees offered first and second floor, 15 employees
offered ground and first floor, 60 employees offered second floor.
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1. The number of employees who did not offer any of the above three floors.
a) 15 c) 5 b) 10 d) 0

2. The number of employees who offered ground and first floor but not second
floor.
a) 10 b) 25 c) 20 d) 15

3. The number of employees who offered first floor.

a) 55 b) 40 c) 50 d) 45

4. The number of employees who offered ground floor.

a) 65 b) 60 c) 70 d) 50

5. The number of employees who offered all three floors.

a) 4 b) 3 c) 5 d) 6

22. Two non-empty sets A and B are given by A = {x:x is a letter in I LOVE
MATHEMATICS}
and B = {x / x is a letter in I LOVE STATISTICS}.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

(a) A = B (b) A ⊂ B (c) B ⊂ A (d) none of these

(1) Which of the following is true?

(ii) A ∪ B is equal to
(a) A (b) B (c) A ∩ B (d) ɸ

(a) A (b) B (c) A ∪ B (d) ɸ

(iii) A ∩ B is equal to

(iv) B-A is equal to

(a) A (b) B (c) A – B (d) ɸ

(v) Number of proper subsets of set B is

(a) 512 (b) 511 (c) 1024 (d) 1023

23. After explaining of sets mathematics teacher in class wrote there're sets as
A = {2, 3, 4, 5), B = {6, 7, 8), C = {x:x is a prime number less than 10). She
asked the students that the following question will judge horimeuch you have
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understood. She asked the students to write down the answers and later they
can check from the aswers written by teacher and give marks.

(i) Find A U B.

(ii) Find (A U B) ∩ C.

(iii) Find (C - B)