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bkenyan05LEARNING MODULE 1 MAT 111 - Foundations of Mathematics
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SESSION 1: Sets
5 minute review
Recap the definition of a set, venn diagram representation of sets, operations of unions,
intersections and complementations of sets and types of sets.
Problems. Choose from the questions below
1. Sets
1. In a certain city, 25% of families own a phone and 15% own a car, 65% of families own
neither a phone nor a car. 2000 families own both a car and a phone. Which of the
following statements below are correct?
(a) 10% of families own both a car and a phone
(b) 35% of families own either a car or a phone
(c) 40, 000 families live in the town
2. Given the sets A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, B = {2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9} and C = {3, 5, 8, 9} give
(a) A ∪ B,
(b) B ∩ B,
(c) A \ C,
(d) A ∪ B ∪ C,
(e) A ∩ B ∩ C.
3. Suppose a list A contains the 60 students in a mathematics class, and a list B contains
the 45 students in an English class, and suppose there are 25 names on both lists. Find
the number of students:
(a) only on list A,
(b) only on list B,
(c) on list A or B (or both),
(d) on exactly one list.
2. Venn diagrams and set operations
1. Given the sets A = {a, e, f, m, k}, B = {b, f, g, h, i, l, m}, C = {c, i, j, h} and D =
{d, e, f, g, h, j}. If the universal set U = {a, b, c, . . . , l, m, n}, find by drawing venn
diagrams
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(a) A ∪ B,
(b) A ∩ C,
(c) B ∩ D,
(d) Bc ,
(e) (B ∪ C)c ,
(f) (C ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ Dc )
(g) (A ∪ C) \ (B ∪ D),
(h) A ∩ C ∩ D.
2. In a survey conducted in Nairobi of 180 people, it was found that:
• 125 read The standard newspaper,
• 115 read The Nation,
• 85 read both The Standard and The Nation,
• 45 read Taifa Leo,
• 25 read both The Standard and Taifa Leo,
• 15 read both The Nation and Taifa Leo,
• 13 read all three magazines.
By filling in a ‘venn’ diagram,
(a) Find the number of people who read at least one of the three magazines.
(b) Fill in the correct number of people in each of the eight regions of the Venn diagram
below where ST, N, and TL denote the set of people who read The Standard, The
Nation, and Taifa Leo respectively.
(c) Find the number of people who read exactly one magazine.
3. cardinality of sets
Find the cardinality of each set below.
1. A = {n ∈ N : 1 ≤ n ≤ 50, and n n is divisible by 3}.
2. B = {n ∈ N : 2 ≤ n ≤ 100}.
3. C = {n ≤ 100 : n ∈ N such that n = 2m + 1 for some m ∈ N}..
4. Practical activity
1. Construct two sets A and B for which n(A) = 5, n(B) = 6, and n(A ∪ B) = 9. What is
n(A ∩ B)?
2. Construct sets A and B with n(A) = n(B) such that n(A ∪ B) = 7 and n(A ∩ B) = 3.
What is n(A)?