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Set Theory

EXERCISE # 1
1. The set of intelligent students in a class is 9. If A and B are two given sets, then A  (A  B)c
(a) A null set is equal to
(b) A singleton set (a) A (b) B
(c) A finite set (c)  (d) A  Bc
(d) Not a well defined collection
10. If Na = {an : n  N} then N3  N4 =
2. Which of the following is the empty set (a) N7 (b) N12
(a) {x : x is a real number and x2 – 1 = 0} (c) N3N3 (d) N4N4
(b) {x : x is a real number and x2 + 1 = 0}
(c) {x : x is a real number and x2 – 9 = 0} 11. If aN = {ax : x  N} and bN  cN = dN, where
(d) {x : x is a real number and x2 = x + 2} b, c  N are relatively prime, then
(a) d = bc (b) c = bd
3. The set A = {x : x  R, x2 = 16 and 2x = 6} equals (c) b = cd (d) None of these
(a)  (b) {14,3,4}
(c) {3} (d) {4} 12. If the sets A and B are defined as
1
A = {(x, y) : y = , 0  x  R}
4. If a set A has n elements, then the total number x
of subsets of A is B = {(x, y) : y = –x, x  R}, then
(a) n (b) n2 (a) A  B = A (b) A  B = B
n
(c) 2 (d) 2n (c) A  B =  (d) None of these

5. Two finite sets have m and n elements. The total 13. Let A = [x : x  R, |x| < 1]: B = [x : x  R, |x – 1|
number of subsets of the first set is 56 more than  1] and A  B = R – D, then the set D is
the total number of subsets of the second set. (a) [x : 1 < x  2] (b) [x : 1  x < 2]
The values of m and n are (c) [x : 1  x  2] (d) None of these
(a) 7, 6 (b) 6, 3
(c) 5, 1 (d) 8, 7 14. Sets A and B have 3 and 6 elements respectively.
What can be the minimum number of elements
6. Given the sets A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {3, 4}, C = {4, in A  B
5, 6}, then A  (B  C) is (a) 3 (b) 6
(a) {3} (b) {1, 2, 3, 4} (c) 9 (d) 18
(c) {1, 2, 4, 5} (d) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
15. If A and B are two sets such that n(A) = 70, n(B)
7. If A  B, then A  B is equal to = 60, and n(A  B) = 110, then n(A  B) is equal
(a) A (b) B  A to
(c) B (d) None of these (a) 240 (b) 50
(c) 40 (d) 20
8. If A and B are any two sets, then A  (A  B) is 16. Let n(U) = 700, n(A) = 200, n(B) = 300 and
equal to
n(A  B) = 100 then n(Ac  Bc)
(a) A (b) B (a) 400 (b) 600
c
(c) A (d) Bc (c) 300 (d) 200

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17. In a city 20 percent of the population travels by 21. If A, B and C are non-empty sets, then (A – B) 
car, 50 percent travels by bus and 10 percent (B – A) equals
travels by both car and bus. Then persons (a) (A  B) – B
travelling by car or bus is (b) A – (A  B)
(a) 80 percent (c) (A  B) – (A  B)
(b) 40 percent (d) (A  B)  (A  B)
(c) 60 percent
(d) 70 percent 22. Let S = {x  R : 4x + 2x + 1 – 8 = 0}. Then x =
(a) 0 (b) 1
18. In a class of 55 students, the number of students (c) 2 (d) 3
studying different subjects are 23 in
Mathematics, 24 in Physics, 19 in Chemistry, 12 23. The set (A  B′)′  (B  C) is equal to
in Mathematics and Physics, 9 in Mathematics (a) A′  B  C (b) A′  B
and Chemistry, 7 in Physics and Chemistry and (c) A′  C′ (d) A′  B
4 in all the three subjects. The number of
students who have taken exactly one subject is 24. If A and B are two given sets, then A  (A  B)c
(a) 6 (b) 9 is equal to
(c) 7 (d) All of these (a) A (b) B
(c)  (d) A  BC
19. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A – (B 
C) is equal to 25. Let A and B be two sets. The set A has 2016
(a) (A – B)  (A – C) more subsets than B. If A  B has 3 members,
(b) (A – B)  (A – C) then the numbers of members in A  B is
(a) 10 (b) 11
(c) (A – B)  C
(c) 12 (d) 13
(d) (A – B)  C
26. If A and B be two sets such that n(A) = 15, n(B)
20. If A = [x : x is a multiple of 3] and B = [x : x is a
= 25, then number of possible values of n(A 
multiple of 5], then A – B is ( A means B) (symmetric difference of A and B) is
complement of A) (a) 30 (b) 16
(a) A  B (b) A  B (c) 26 (d) 40
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EXERCISE # 2

1. Let A = {x : x  R, x  2} and B = {x : x  R, 8. If there are three athelitic teams in a school 21

x < 4}. Then A  B = are in the basketball team,26 in hockey team
(a) {x : x ∈ R, 2 < x < 4} and 29 in the football team. 14 play hockey
(b) {x : x ∈ R, 2 ≤ x < 4} and basketball, 15 play hockey and football,
(c) B 12 play football and basketball and 8 play all
(d) A the games. The total number of members is
(a) 42
2. If A = {φ, {(φ)}}, then the power set P(A) of (b) 43
A is (c) 45
(a) A (d) None of these
(b) {, {}, A}
(c) {, {}, {{}}, A} 9. If P(A) denotes the power set of A and A is the
(d) {, {}, {{}}} void set, then what is number of elements in
P{P{P{P(A)}}}?
3. Let U be the universal set containing 700 (a) 0 (b) 1
elements. If A, B are sub-sets of U such that (c) 4 (d) 16
n(A) = 200, n(B) = 300 and n(A  B) =100.
Then n(A′  B′) = 10. There are 4 prime numbers between n and 2n.
(a) 400 (b) 600 Then, possible values of n is
(c) 300 (d) 200 (a) n = 4
(b) n = 12
(c) n = 10
4. If X = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, A = {x  N :
(d) n = 50
30 < x2 < 70}, B = {x : x is a prime number
less than 10}, then which of the following is
incorrect? 11. Let S = {x  R : 2333x–2 + 2111x+1 = 2222x+2 + 1}.
(a) A  B = {2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8} Then Sum of all elements of S is
(b) A  B = {7, 8} 111
(a)
(c) A – B = {6, 8} 2
(d) A  B = {2, 3, 5, 6, 8} 2
(b)
111
5. Let X be the universal set for sets A and B, if (c) 2
n(A) = 200, n(B) = 300 and n(A  B) = 100, (d) 111
then n(A′  B′) is equal to 300 provided n(X)
is equal to 12. Let U be the universal set and A  B  C = U.
(a) 600 (b) 700 Then {(A – B)  (B – C)  (C – A)}′ is equal
(c) 800 (d) 900 to
(a) A  B  CC
6. If A and B be two universal sets and A  B  (b) A  (B  C)
C = U. Then, {(A – B)  (B – C)  (C – A)}′ (c) A  B  C
is equal to (d) A  (B  C)
(a) A  B  C (b) A  (B  C)
(c) A  B  C (d) A  (B  C) 13. The value of (A  B  C)  (A  BC  CC)C
 CC is
7. The set (A  B  C)  (A  B′  C′)′  C′ is (a) B  CC
equal to (b) BC  CC
(a) B  C' (b) A  C (c) B  C
(c) B'  C (d) None of these (d) A  B  C

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14. An investigator interviewed 100 students to 20. For sets A, B and C match the following lists:
determine their preferences for the three List-I List-II
drinks: milk (M), coffee (C) and tea (T). He (Set) (Corresponding Venn
reported the following : 10 students had all the diagram)
three drinks M, C and T; 20 had M and C; 30 (P). A – (B (1)
had C and T; 25 had M and T; 12 had M only, – C)
5 had C only; and 8 had T only. If number of
students who did not take any the three drinks
n
is n, then is
5
(Q). (A – (2)
15. In a class of 80 students numbered 1 to 80, all B) – C
odd numbered students opt of Cricket,
students whose numbers are divisible by 5 opt
for Football and those whose numbers are
divisible by 7 opt for Hockey. If the number
of students who do not opt any of the three
(R). A – (B (3)
n
games is n, then is equal to – C')
4

16. A survey shows that 61%, 46% and 29% of

the people watched "3 idiots", "Rajneeti" and
"Avatar" respectively. 25% people watched
exactly two of the three movies and 3% (S). A – (B' (4)
watched none. What percentage of people – C')
watched all the three movies?

17. If n(A) = 4 and n(B) = 7, then the difference

between maximum and minimum value of
n(A  B) is (a) (P)-(2), (Q)-(3), (R)-(4), (S)-(1)
(b) (P)-(2), (Q)-(3), (R)-(1), (S)-(4)

18. 
Let S = x  R :| x − 2 |10 x
2
−1

=| x − 2 |3x . Then
(c)
(d)
(P)-(3), (Q)-(1), (R)-(4), (S)-(2)
(P)-(2), (Q)-(1), (R)-(4), (S)-(3)
n(S) is
21. If A = [–3, 5) – {1} and B = (0, 7] – {4}, then
match the following lists:
19. Match the following sets for all sets A, B and
List-I List-II
C
(P) A – B (1) (0, 5) – {1, 4}
Column-I Column-II
(Q) B – A (2) [–3, 0]  
(P) ((A'  B')' – A)' (1) A – B
(R) AB (3) [5, 7]  
(Q) [B'  (B' – A)]' (2) U
(S) (A  B) – (A  B) (4) [–3, 0]   
(R) (A − B) − (B − C) (3) B
  
(S) (A − B)  (C − B) (4) (A  C) – B
(a) (P)-(3), (Q)-(1), (R)-(4), (S)-(1)
(a) P → (1), Q → (2), R → (3), S → (4)
(b) (P)-(2), (Q)-(3), (R)-(1), (S)-(4)
(b) P → (2), Q → (3), R → (1), S → (4) (c) (P)-(3), (Q)-(1), (R)-(4), (S)-(2)
(c) P → (2), Q → (3), R → (4), S → (1) (d) (P)-(2), (Q)-(1), (R)-(4), (S)-(3)
(d) P → (1), Q → (3), R → (2), S → (4)

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EXERCISE # 3
1. If A, B and C are three sets such that A  B = A 50 n
 C and A  B = A  C, then (2009) 6. Let Xi = Yi = T where each Xi contains
(a) A = C (b) B = C i =1 i =1

(c) A  B =  (d) A = B 10 elements and each Yi contains 5 elements.

If each element of the set T is an element of
2. Let S = {1,2,3, ………, 100}. The number of exactly 20 of sets Xi's and exactly 6 of sets Yi's,
non-empty subsets A of S such that the product then n is equal to (2020)
of elements in A is even is: (2019) (a) 50 (b) 15
(a) 2100 – l (b) 250 (250 – l)
(c) 30 (d) 45
(c) 250 – l (d) 250 + l

3. Let A, B and C be sets such that   Α  Β 7. A survey shows that 73% of the persons
 C. Then which of the following statements working in an office like coffee, whereas 65%
is not true? like tea. If x denotes the percentage of them,
(2019) who like both coffee and tea, then x cannot be:
(a) If (A – C)  B, then A  B (2020)
(b) (C  A)  (C  B) = C (a) 63 (b) 36
(c) If (A – B)  C, then A  C (c) 38 (d) 54
(d) B  C  

4. Let X = {n ∈ N : 1 ≤ n ≤ 50}. If A = {n ∈ X: n 8. Set A has m elements and Set B has n

is a multiple of 2); B = {n ∈ X: n is a multiple elements. If the total number of subsets of A is
of 7}, then the number of elements in the 112 more than total number of subsets of B,
smallest subset of X containing both A and B then the value of m · n is _______. (2020)
is _____________.
(2020) 9. Let A = {x ∈ R : |x +1| < 2} and B = {x ∈ R: |x –1|
> 2}. Then which one of the following
5. If A= {x ∈ R : |x| < 2} and B = {x  R : |x – 2|
≥ 3} then: (2020) statements is NOT true? (2022)
(a) A – B = [–1, 2) (a) A – B = (–1, 1)
(b) A  B = R – (2, 5) (b) B – A = R – (–3, l)
(c) B – A = R – (–2, 5) (c) A  B = (–3, –1]
(d) A  B = (–2, –1) (d) A  B = R – [l, 3)

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EXERCISE # 1
1. (d) 14. (b)
2. (b) 15. (d)
3. (a) 16. (c)
4. (c) 17. (c)
5. (b) 18. (d)
6. (b) 19. (b)
7. (c) 20. (b)
8. (a) 21. (c)
9. (d) 22. (b)
10. (b) 23. (b)
11. (a) 24. (d)
12. (c) 25. (d)
13. (b) 26. (b)

EXERCISE # 2
1. (b) 12. (c)
2. (c) 13. (a)
3. (c) 14. (4)
4. (d) 15. (7)
5. (b) 16. (4)
6. (c) 17. (4)
7. (a) 18. (4)
8. (b) 19. (b)
9. (d) 20. (a)
10. (c) 21. (b)
11. (b)

EXERCISE # 3
1. (b) 6. (c)
2. (b) 7. (b)
3. (a) 8. (28)
4. (29) 9. (b)
5. (c)

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