SETS

Naming Sets Types of Sets

Well defined or not?

The set of months in a year.
The set of large numbers.

The set of most interesting students in this class The set of continents in the world

A={4, 8, 12, 16}

Give two elements of set A.
What is n(D)? Give one subset of D.

How many subsets does set D have?

HOMEWORK: CHECK YOUR OWN PAPER.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Well defined Not well defined Well defined Well defined Not well defined

QUESTIONS?

3 W YS TO INDICA A TE A SET
1. Roster Method (Listing) 2. Rule Method 3. Set Builder Notation

The set of months in a year

By roster method: A={January, February, MarchDecember
List all the elements of the set. Use ellipsis if there are too many elements.

The set of months in a year

By Rule Method A is the set of months in a year
Describe the common property of the elements in a set without enumerating the elements.

The set of months in a year

By Set Builder Notation A={x | x is a month in a year}
A is the set of all elements of x such that x is a month in a year.

Treat each element as x. State the condition. x must satisfy the condition

CONTINENTS IN THE WORLD

B = {Africa, Antartica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America} B is the set of continents in the world
B = {x | x is a continent}

DEFINTION
C = {1} D = {green} E = {Madagascar}

UNIT SET A set with only one element. Its cardinality is always 1
How many subsets does a unit set have?

DEFINTION

F={}
EMPTY SET OR NULL SET
A set that has no elements. Its cardinality is always 0. It is symbolized by or { }.
How many subsets } to null set Why cant we use { does a denote a have? null set?

DEFINTION
G = {2, 4, 5, 6} H = {a,b,c} I = {11, 12, 20}

FINITE SET A set whose elements can be counted. What is the n (E) ?

DEFINTION
J = {2, 4, 5, 6,} K = {a,b,c,} L = {11, 12, 13,}

INFINITE SET A set whose elements cannot be counted. It has an unlimited number of elements

What is a unit set? What is a null set? How is infinite set different from a finite set?

DEFINTION

L = {2, 4, 6} M = {4,5,6,7}
JOINT SETS Sets with common elements
What are the common elements of L and M?

DEFINTION

N = {12, 14, 16} O = {11,13,15,17}

DISJOINT SETS Sets without common elements.

DEFINTION P = {a, b, c, d} Q = {b, c, d, a} R = {d, a, c, b}

EQUAL SETS Sets with exactly the same elements regardless of the order.

DEFINTION S = {1, 2, 3, 4} T = {a, b, c, d}

EQUIVALENT SETS Sets with exactly the same cardinality. How are equivalent sets different from equal sets?

What are a joint sets? What are a disjoint sets? What are equal sets? What are equivalent sets?

Practice Exercises B and C.

HOMEWORK: CHECK YOUR OWN PAPER.

A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 8 1 2 16 64 B. 1. X = {6,7,8,9,10,11} 2. M = {x | x is a multiple of 10} 3. T is the set of three
basic needs of a person

SYNTHESIS
[Journal]: Write 3 important points that you learned about todays topic.