SET THEORY DPP- 01

Section (A) : Representation of sets, Types of sets, subset and power set

1. State wether the following collections is a set or not ?

(i) The collection of natural numbers between 2 and 20

(ii) The collection of numbers which satisfy the equation x2 –5x + 6 = 0

(iii) The collection of prime numbers between 1 and 100.

(iv) The collection of all intelligent women in Jalandhar.

2. Write the following set in tabular form

(i) A = {x : x is a positive prime < 10} (ii) B = {x : x = 3, x  , 1    3}

3. Write the following set in builder form

(i) set of all rational number (ii) {2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, .........}

4. Identifiy type of set in terms of empty/singleton/finite/infinite

(i) {x : x is a real number and x2 – 1 = 0} (ii) {x : x is a real number and x2 + 1 = 0}

(iii) {x : x is positive real number and x2 – 9 = 0} (iv) {x : x is a real number and x2 + 2x + 2  0}

5. Write power set of the set A = {, {}}.

6. Given the sets A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {3, 4}, C = {4, 5, 6}, then find the following

(i) A  (B  C) (ii) A – (B  C) (iii) (B  C) – A

7. Find the smallest set A such that A  {1, 2} = {1, 2, 3, 5, 9}

8. If aN = {ax : x  N} and bN  cN = dN, where b, c  N, b  2, c  2 are relatively prime, then write 'd' in terms
of b and c.

9. Sets A and B have 3 and 6 elements respectively. What can be the minimum and maximum number of
elements in

(i) AB (ii) AB

10. Let n(U) = 700, n(A) = 200, n(B) = 300 and n(A  B) = 100, then find n(A'  B')

11. In a college of 300 students, every student reads 5 newspapers and every newspaper is read by 60
students. Find the number of newspaper.

12. 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, then find number of families which buy newspaper A only.
 SET THEORY DPP- 02

PART - II : ONLY ONE OPTION CORRECT TYPE

1. The set of intelligent students in a class is-

(A) a null set (B) a singleton set

(C) a finite set (D) not a well defined collection

2. The set A = {x : x  R, x2 = 16 and 2x = 6} is

(A) Null set (B) Singleton set

(C) Infinite set (D) not a well defined collection

3. If A = {x : –3 < x < 3, x  Z} then the number of subsets of A is –

(A) 120 (B) 30 (C) 31 (D) 32

4.. Which of the following are true ?

(A) [3, 7]  (2, 10) (B) (0, )  (4, ) (C) (5, 7]  [5, 7) (D) [2, 7]  (2.9, 8)

5. The number of subsets of the power set of set A = {7, 10, 11} is

(A) 32 (B) 16 (C) 64 (D) 256

6. Which of the folowing sets is an infinite set ?

(A) Set of divisors of 24

(B) Set of all real number which lie between 1 and 2

(C) Set of all humman beings living in India.

(D) Set of all three digit natural numbers

7. Let A = {x : x  R, –1 < x < 1} , B = {x : x  R, x  0 or x  2} and A  B = R – D, then the set D is

(A) {x : 1 < x  2} (B) {x : 1  x < 2} (C) {x : 1  x  2} (D) {x : 1 < x < 2}

8. If A = {2, 3, 4, 8, 10}, B = {3, 4, 5, 10, 12}, C = {4, 5, 6, 12, 14} then (A  B)  (A  C) is equal to

(A) {3, 4, 10} (B) {2, 8, 10} (C) {4, 5, 6} (D) {3, 5, 14}

9. The shaded region in the given figure is

 (A) A  (B  C) (B) A  (B  C) (C) A  (B – C) (D) A – (B  C)

10. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, A = {1, 2, 5}, B = {6, 7}, then A  B is

(A) B (B) A (C) A (D) B

11. If A = {x : x = 4n + 1, n  5, n  N} and B {3n : n  8, n  N}, then A – (A – B) is :

(A) {9, 21} (B) {9, 12} (C) {6, 12} (D) {6, 21}

12. A  B = A  B iff :

(A) A  B (B) A = B (C) A  B (D) A  B

13. Consider the following statements :

1. N  (B  Z) = (N  B)  Z for any subset B of R, where N is the set of positive integers, Z is the set of
integers, R is the set of real numbers.

2. Let A = {n  N : 1  n  24, n is a multiple of 3}. There exists no subset B of N such that the number of
elemets in A is equal to the number of elements in B.

Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

(A) 1 only (B) 2 only (C) Both 1 and 2(D) Neither 1 nor 2

14. Which of the following venn-diagrams best represents the sets of females, mothers and doctors ?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

15. Let A and B be two sets. Then

(A) n(A  B)  n(A  B) (B) n(A  B)  n(A  B) (C) n(A  B) = n(A  B) (D) can't be say
 SET THEORY DPP- 03

PART - I : ONLY ONE OPTION CORRECT TYPE

1. In a city 20 percent of the population travels by car, 50 percent travels by bus and 10 percent travels by both
car and bus. Then persons travelling by car or bus is

(A) 80 percent (B) 40 percent (C) 60 percent (D) 70 percent

2. A class has 175 students. The following data shows the number of students obtaining one or more subjects :
Mathematics 100, Physics 70, Chemistry 40, Mathematics and Physics 30, Mathematics and Chemistry 28,
Physics and Chemistry 23, Mathematics & Physics & Chemistry 18. How many students have offered
Mathematics alone ?

(A) 35 (B) 48 (C) 60 (D) 22

3. 31 candidates appeared for an examination, 15 candidates passed in English, 15 candidates passed in Hindi,
20 candidates passed in Sanskrit. 3 candidates passed only in English. 4. candidates passed only in Hindi, 7
candidates passed only in Sanskrit. 2 candidates passed in all the three subjects How many candidates
passed only in two subjects ?

(A) 17 (B) 15 (C) 22 (D) 14

4. Let A1, A2 and A3 be subsets of a set X. Which one of the following is correct ?

(A) A1  A2  A3 is the smallest subset of X containing elements of each of A1, A2 and A3

(B) A1  A2  A3 is the smallest subset of X containing either A1 or A2  A3 but not both

(C) The smallest subset of X containing A1  A2 and A3 equals the smallest subset of X containing both A1
and A2  A3 only if A2 = A3

(D) None of these

5. Let A, B, C be distinct subsets of a universal set U. For a subset X of U, let X ' denote the complement of X in
U.

Consider the following sets :

1. ((A  B)  C)  B) = B  C

2. (A   B )  (A  B  C) = (A  (B  C))

Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

(A) 1 only (B) 2 only (C) Both 1 and 2(D) Neither 1 nor 2

6. In an examination of a certain class, at least 70% of the students failed in Physics, at least 72% failed in
Chemistry, at least 80% failed in Mathematics and at least 85% failed in English. How many at least must
have failed in all the four subjects ?

(A) 5% (B) 7%
 (C) 15% (D) Cannot be determined due to insufficient data

7. Let X and Y be two sets.

Statement-1 X  (Y  X)' = 

Statement-2 If X  Y has m elements and X  Y has n elements then symmetric difference X  Y

has m – n elements.

(A) Both the statements are true.

(B) Statement- is true, but Statement- is false.

(C) Statement- is false, but Statement- is true.

(D) Both the statements are false.

PART - II : SINGLE AND DOUBLE VALUE INTEGER TYPE

8. Let U be set with number of elements in it is 2009 and A, B are subsets of U with n (A  B) = 280. If n(A  B)
= x13 + x 32 = y13 + y 32 for some positive integers x1, x2 , y1, y2 then find the value of
(x1 + x2 + y1 + y2).

9. Let U be set with number of elements in it is 2009. A is a subset of U with n (A) = 1681 and out of these 1681
elements, exactly 1075 elements belong to a subset B of U. If n (A – B) = m2 + p1 p2 p3 for some positive
integer m and distinct primes p1, p2, p3 then for least m find (p1 + p2 + p3)

10. Let A = {(x, y) : x  R, y  R, x3 + y3 = 1], B = {(x, y) : x  R, y  R, x – y = 1}

and C = {(x, y) : x  R, y  R, x + y = 1}. If A  B contains 'p' elements and A  C contains 'q' elements then
find (q – p).

11. In a class of 42 students, the number of students studying different subjects are 23 in Mathematics, 24 in
Physics, 19 in Chemistry, 12 in Mathematics and Physics 9 in Mathematics and Chemistry, 7 in Physics and
Chemistry and 4 in all the three subjects. Then find number of students who have taken exactly one subject.

PART - III : ONE OR MORE THAN ONE OPTIONS CORRECT TYPE

12. A and B are two sets such that n(A) = 3 and n(B) = 6, then

(A) minimum value of n(A  B) = 6 (B) minimum value of n(A  B) = 9

(C) maximum value of n(A  B) = 6 (D) maximum value of n(A  B) = 9

13. In a survery, it was found that 21 persons liked product A, 26 liked product B and 29 liked product C. If 14
persons liked products A and B, 12 liked products C and A, 13 persons liked products B and C and 8 liked all
the three products then which of the following is (are) true ?

(A) The number of persons who liked the product C only = 12

(B) The number of persons who like the products A and B but not C = 6

(C) The number of persons who liked the product C only = 6

(D) The number of persons who like the products A and B but not C = 12

14. Let a > 2, a  N be a constant. If there are just 18 positive integers satisfying the inequality
(x – a)(x – 2a)(x – a2) < 0 then which of the option(s) is/are correct?
(A) 'a' is composite (B) 'a' is odd
(C) 'a' is greater than 8 (D) 'a' lies in the interval (3, 11)
15. If A, B and C are three sets such that A  B = A  C and A  B = A  C, then

(1) A = C (2) B = C (3) A  B =  (4) A = B

16. Let X = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. The number of different ordered pairs (Y, Z) that can formed such that Y  X, Z  X and
Y  Z is empty, is :

(1) 52 (2) 35 (3) 25 (4) 53

17. If X = {4n – 3n – 1 : n  N} and Y = {9(n – 1) : n  N}, where N is the set of natural numbers, then X  Y is
equal to

(1) X (2) Y (3) N (4) Y – X

18. In a class 140 students numbered 1 to 140, all even numbered students opted Mathematics course, those
whose number is divisible by 3 opted Physics course and those whose number is divisible 5 opted Chemistry
course. Then the number of student who did not opt for any of the three courses is :

(1) 38 (2) 42 (3) 102 (4) 1

PART - IV : COMPREHENSION

Comprehension #

In a group of 1000 people, there are 750 people, who can speak Hindi and 400 people, who can speak
Bengali.

1. Number of people who can speak Hindi only is

(A) 300 (B) 400 (C) 500 (D) 600

2. Number of people who can speak Bengali only is

(A) 150 (B) 250 (C) 50 (D) 100

3. Number of people who can speak both Hindi and Bengali is

(A) 50 (B) 100 (C) 150 (D) 200