FUTURE BHUBANESWAR SCHOOL
CHAPTER -1(SETS) HOLIDAY HW
BY: SATYAJIT SIR
Introduction to Sets and their representation, Types of Sets
Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark]
1. Is “A collection of the most dangerous animals of the world” a set? Justify your answer.
2. State true or false: 37 ∈ {x: x has exactly two positive factors}.
3. Describe the set {x: (x-1)/(x+3) = 4, x ∈ ℝ} in the roster form.
4. Write the set-builder form of {2, 5}.
5. Write the set {x: x is a positive integer and x² < 40} in the Roster form.
6. Write the set of all vowels in the English alphabet which precedes ‘q’.
7. Write set D = {1/2, 2/5, 3/10, 4/17, 5/26, 6/37, 7/50} in the set-builder form.
8. Use the listing method to express the set A = {x: x = n³, n ∈ N and x < 80}.
9. Write the given set in the roster form: A = {x: x is an integer and -3 ≤ x < 7}.
10. Give one example of a null set.
11. Which of the following is a finite set? (a) The set of months of the year. (b) The set of positive integers is greater
than 100. (c) The set of lines that are parallel to the x-axis.
12. Write the following set in roster form. A = {x : x is a positive integer less than 10 and 2x² – 1 is an odd number}
13. Describe the set of all letters in the word “TEACHER” in the roster form.
14. Describe the set {x: x = 1/n, 1 ≤ n ≤ 5, n ∈ N} in roster form.
15. Which of the following sets are empty sets?
(a) A = {x: 4 < x < 5, x ∈ N}
(b) B = {x: x ∈ N and x² = 9}
(c) C = {x² - 3 = 0, x is rational}
(d) D = Set of odd natural numbers divisible by 2.
(e) S = {x :( 2x - 1) (2x - 3) (2x - 5) = 0 and x ∈ N}
Short Answer Type Questions [2 Marks]
16. Write the cardinal number of the set of all integers x for which 30/x is a natural number.
17. 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 write
n(S) + n(P).
18. Let T = {x: x + 5/x - 7 = 5 – 4x – 40/13 – x}. Is T an empty set? Justify your answer.
19. Give an example of a set that has exactly 10 elements and express it through defining Property.
Equal and Equivalent Sets
Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark]
1. State true or false: {a, e} = {a, a, e, e, a}.
2. State true or false: The sets A = {e} and B = {{e}} are equal.
3. Show that the following sets are equal:
A = {2, 1}, B = {2, 1, 1, 2} and C = {x: x² – 3x + 2 = 0}.
4. From the sets given below, select equal sets and equivalent sets:
A = {0, a}, B = {1, 1, 2, 3, 4}, C = {4, 8, 12}, D = {3, 1, 2, 4}, E = {1, 0}, F = {8, 4, 12}, G = {1, 5, 7, 11}, H = {a, b}.
Subsets and Supersets, Power Sets, Venn diagram
Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark]
1. Write the subsets of A = {a, b, c}.
2. Make a correct statement by using these symbols ⊂ and ∈ in blank spaces.
(a) {2, 3, 4}____{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
(b) {a, b, c}____{b, c, d}
3. Is the given statement true? {a, b} ⊂ {b, c, a}
4. Write down the subset of {a}
5. Fill in the blanks: The set {x: x ∈ ℝ: 1 ≤ x < 2} can be written as _______.
Short Answer Type Questions [2 Marks]
6. Write the power set of A = {0, 1}. Also, find the cardinal number of P(A).
7. If the set A has five elements, how many subsets will A have? If A has six elements, how many Proper subsets will A
have?
8. If set A = {1, 2, 5} then find the number of elements in P(P(A)).
Short Answer Type Questions [3 Marks]
9. Two finite sets A and B have m and k elements respectively. If the ratio of the cardinal number of P(A) to that of P(B)
is 64 : 1 and n(A) + n(B) = 12, then find the values of m and k.
10. Two finite sets have m and n elements. If the total number of subsets of the first set is 56 more than the total
number of subsets of the second set, then find the values of m and n.
Operations on Sets
Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark]
1. Let A = {a, e, i, o, u} and B = {a, i, u}, find A ∩ B.
2. Fill in the blanks: If A and B are finite sets such that A ⊆ B, then n(A ∪ B) = _______.
3. Fill in the blank: For all sets A and B, A - (A ∩ B) is equal to _______.
4. Find the union of the given pair of sets: X = {1, 3, 5}, Y = {1, 2, 3}.
Practical problems based on operations on Sets
Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark]
1. If 𝑋 and 𝑌 are two sets such that 𝑋∪𝑌 has 50 elements, 𝑋 has 28 elements, and 𝑌 has 32 elements, how many
elements does 𝑋∩𝑌 have?
2. If 𝐴 and 𝐵 are two sets such that (𝐴)=17n, 𝑛(𝐵)=23and 𝑛(𝐴∪𝐵)=38, find 𝑛(𝐵−𝐴).
Short Answer Type Questions [2 Marks]
3. If 𝑛(𝑈)=50,𝑛(𝐴)=30, 𝑛(𝐵)=12 and 𝑛(𝐴∪𝐵)′=15, then find 𝑛(𝐵′).
4. If (𝑈)=40,𝑛(𝐴)=25 and 𝑛(𝐵′)=20, then find: (a) the greatest value of 𝑛(𝐴∩𝐵) (b) the least value of 𝑛(𝐴∩𝐵).
Short Answer Type Questions [3 Marks]
5. In a group of 50 people, 35 speak Hindi, 25 speak both English and Hindi and all people speak at least one of two
languages. How many people speak only English and not Hindi? How many people speak English?
6. Let 𝐴 and 𝐵 be two sets such that (𝐴−𝐵)=14+𝑥,𝑛(𝐵−𝐴)=𝑥, and 𝑛(𝐴∩𝐵)=3𝑥. If (𝐴)=𝑛(𝐵).
Find: (i) the value of 𝑥 (ii) (𝐴∪𝐵)
7. In a town with a population of 5000, 3200 people are egg-eaters, 2500 meat-eaters, and 1500 eat both egg and
meat. How many are pure vegetarians?
8. In school, 20 teachers teach Maths or Physics. Out of these, 12 teach Maths and 4 teach Physics and Maths. How
many teach Physics?
9. In a group of 70 people, 37 like coffee, 52 like tea, and each person likes at least one of the two drinks. How many
people like both coffee and tea?
Long Answer Type Questions [5 Marks]
11. In a class of 60 students, 23 play hockey, 15 play basketball, 20 play cricket and 7 play Hockey and basketball, 5
play cricket and basketball, 4 play hockey and cricket, 15 do not Play any of the three games. Find
(i) How many play hockey, basketball and cricket.
(ii) How many play hockey but not cricket.
(iii) How many play hockey and cricket but not basketball.
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