CHAPTER #1 : SETS

1. The set of intelligent students in a class is 14. In a town of 10,000 families it was found that 40% family
(a) A null set buy newspaper A, 20% buy newspaper B and 10%
(b) A singleton set families buy newspaper C, 5% families buy A and B, 3%
(c) A finite set buy B and C and 4% buy A and C. If 2% families buy all the
three newspapers, then number of families which buy A
(d) Not a well defined collection
only is
2. Which of the following is the empty set
(a) 3100 (b) 3300
(a) { x : x is a real number and x 2  1  0} (c) 2900 (d) 1400
(b) {x : x is a real number and x 2  1  0} 15. In a city 20 percent of the population travels by car, 50
percent travels by bus and 10 percent travels by both car
(c) {x : x is a real number and x 2  9  0} and bus. Then persons travelling by car or bus is
(d) {x : x is a real number and x 2  x  2}
(a) 80 percent (b) 40 percent
3. The set A  { x : x  R, x 2  16 and 2 x  6} equals
(c) 60 percent (d) 70 percent
(a)  (b) {14, 3, 4} 16. In a class of 55 students, the number of students studying
(c) {3} (d) {4} different subjects are 23 in Mathematics, 24 in Physics, 19
4. If a set A has n elements, then the total number of subsets in Chemistry, 12 in Mathematics and Physics, 9 in
of A is Mathematics and Chemistry, 7 in Physics and Chemistry
and 4 in all the three subjects. The number of students
(a) n (b) n 2
who have taken exactly one subject is
(c) 2 n (d) 2n
5. The number of proper subsets of the set {1, 2, 3} is (a) 6 (b) 9
(a) 8 (b) 7 (c) 7 (d) All of these
(c) 6 (d) 5 17. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A × (B  C) is equal to
6. Given the sets A  {1, 2, 3}, B  {3,4 } , C = {4, 5, 6}, then
A  (B  C) is (a) (A × B)  (A × C) (b) (A  B) × (A  C)
(c) (A × B)  (A × C) (d) None of these
(a) {3} (b) {1, 2, 3, 4}
18. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A – (B  C) is equal to
(c) {1, 2, 4, 5} (d) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
(a) (A – B)  (A – C) (b) (A – B)  (A – C)
7. If A and B are any two sets, then A  ( A  B) is equal to
(c) (A – B)  C (d) (A – B)  C
(a) A (b) B
19. If A, B and C are non-empty sets, then (A – B)  (B – A)
(c) Ac (d) B c equals
8. If A and B are two given sets, then A  ( A  B)c is equal (a) (A  B) – B (b) A – (A  B)
to (c) (A  B) – (A  B) (d) (A  B)  (A  B)
(a) A (b) B 20. If A  {2, 4 , 5}, B  {7, 8, 9}, then n( A  B) is equal to
(c)  (d) A  B c
(a) 6 (b) 9
9. If the sets A and B are defined as (c) 3 (d) 0
1 21. If the set A has p elements, B has q elements, then the
A  {( x , y ) : y  , 0  x  R} number of elements in A × B is
x
(a) p  q (b) p  q  1
B  {( x , y ) : y   x , x  R} , then
(c) pq (d) p 2
(a) A  B  A (b) A  B  B
(c) A  B   (d) None of these 22. If A  {a, b}, B  {c, d }, C  {d , e }, then

10. Let A  [ x : x  R,| x |  1]; B  [ x : x  R,| x  1 |  1] and {(a, c), (a, d ), (a, e ), (b, c), (b, d ), (b, e )} is equal to
A  B  R  D, then the set D is
(a) A  (B  C) (b) A  (B  C)
(a) [ x : 1  x  2] (b) [ x : 1  x  2] (c) A × (B  C) (d) A × (B  C)
(c) [ x : 1  x  2] (d) None of these 23. If P, Q and R are subsets of a set A, then R × (Pc  Qc)c =
11. If the sets A and B are defined as
A  {( x , y ) : y  e x , x  R} ; B  {( x , y) : y  x , x  R}, then (a) (R × P)  (R × Q) (b) (R  Q)  (R  P)
(c) (R  P)  (R  Q) (d) None of these
(a) B  A (b) A  B 24. In rule method the null set is represented by
(c) AB  (d) A  B  A
(a) {} (b) 
12. If X  {4 n  3n  1 : n  N } and Y  {9(n  1) : n  N }, (c) {x : x  x } (d) {x : x  x }
then X  Y is equal to 25. A  {x : x  x } represents
(a) X (b) Y
(c) N (d) None of these (a) {0} (b) {}
13. Let n(U)  700 , n( A)  200 , n(B)  300 and (c) {1} (d) {x}
n( A  B)  100 , then n( A c  B c )   1 
26. If Q   x : x  , where y  N  , then
 y 
(a) 400 (b) 600 (a) 0  Q (b) 1  Q
(c) 300 (d) 200
 2 (c) N 35 (d) N 5
(c) 2  Q (d)Q
3 (e) N 12
27. Which set is the subset of all given sets 44. If aN  {ax : x  N }, then the set 3 N  7 N is
(a) {1, 2, 3, 4,......} (b) {1}
(a) 21 N (b) 10 N
(c) {0} (d) {}
(c) 4 N (d) None of these
28. Let S  {0, 1, 5, 4 , 7} . Then the total number of subsets of
45. The shaded region in the given figure is
S is
(a) A  (B  C) A
(a) 64 (b) 32
(c) 40 (d) 20 (b) A  (B  C)
29. The number of non-empty subsets of the set {1, 2, 3, 4} is (c) A  (B – C)
(d) A – (B  C) C B
(a) 15 (b) 14
46. If A and B are two sets then (A – B)  (B – A)  (A  B) is
(c) 16 (d) 17
equal to
30. The smallest set A such that A  {1, 2} = {1, 2, 3, 5, 9} is
(a) A  B (b) A  B
(a) {2, 3, 5} (b) {3, 5, 9}
(c) A (d) B
(c) {1, 2, 5, 9} (d) None of these
47. Let A and B be two sets then ( A  B)  ( A  B) is equal
31. If A  B = B, then
to
(a) A  B (b) B  A
(a) A (b) A
(c) A   (d) B  
(c) B (d) None of these
32. If A and B are two sets, then A  B  A  B iff 48. Let U be the universal set and A  B  C  U . Then
(a) A  B (b) B  A {( A  B)  (B  C)  (C  A)} is equal to
(c) AB (d) None of these (a) A  B  C (b) A  (B  C)
33. Let A and B be two sets. Then (c) A  B  C (d) A  (B  C)
(a) A  B  A  B (b) A  B  A  B
49. If n( A)  3 , n(B)  6 and A  B . Then the number of
(c) A  B = A  B (d) None of these
x
elements in A  B is equal to
34. Let A  {( x , y ) : y  e , x  R} ,
(a) 3 (b) 9
B  {( x , y ) : y  e  x , x  R}. Then (c) 6 (d) None of these
(a) A  B   (b) A  B   50. Let A and B be two sets such that
(c) A  B  R 2
(d) None of these n( A)  0 .16 , n(B)  0 .14 , n( A  B)  0 .25 . Then n( A  B)
35. If A = {2, 3, 4, 8, 10}, B = {3, 4, 5, 10, 12}, is equal to
C = {4, 5, 6, 12, 14} then (A  B)  (A  C) is equal to (a) 0.3 (b) 0.5
(a) {3, 4, 10} (b) {2, 8, 10} (c) 0.05 (d) None of these
(c) {4, 5, 6} (d) {3, 5, 14}
51. If A and B are disjoint, then n( A  B) is equal to
36. If A and B are any two sets, then A  (A  B) is equal to
(a) A (b) B (a) n(A) (b) n(B)
(c) A c
(d) B c
(c) n( A)  n(B) (d) n( A). n(B)
37. If A, B, C be three sets such that A  B = A  C and A  B = 52. If A and B are not disjoint sets, then n( A  B) is equal to
A  C, then
(a) A = B (b) B = C
(c) A = C (d) A = B = C (a) n( A)  n(B) (b) n( A)  n(B)  n( A  B)
38. Let A = {a, b, c}, B = {b, c, d}, C = {a, b, d, e}, then A  (B  (c) n( A)  n(B)  n( A  B) (d) n( A) n(B)
C) is
(e) n( A)  n(B)
(a) {a, b, c} (b) {b, c, d} 53. In a battle 70% of the combatants lost one eye, 80% an
(c) {a, b, d, e} (d) {e} ear, 75% an arm, 85% a leg, x% lost all the four limbs. The
39. If A and B are sets, then A  (B – A) is minimum value of x is
(a)  (b) A (a) 10 (b) 12
(c) B (d) None of these (c) 15 (d) None of these
40. If A and B are two sets, then A  ( A  B) is equal to 54. Out of 800 boys in a school, 224 played cricket, 240 played
(a) A (b) B hockey and 336 played basketball. Of the total, 64 played
(c)  (d) None of these both basketball and hockey; 80 played cricket and
41. Let U  {1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 } , A  {1, 2, 5}, B  {6, 7} , basketball and 40 played cricket and hockey; 24 played all
then A  B is the three games. The number of boys who did not play any
(a) B  (b) A game is
(c) A  (d) B (a) 128 (b) 216
42. If A is any set, then (c) 240 (d) 160
(a) A  A   (b) A  A  U 55. A survey shows that 63% of the Americans like cheese
(c) A  A  U (d) None of these whereas 76% like apples. If x% of the Americans like both
43. If N a  [an : n  N }, then N 5  N 7  cheese and apples, then
(a) x  39 (b) x  63
(a) N 7 (b) N (c) 39  x  63 (d) None of these
56. 20 teachers of a school either teach mathematics or (a) 16 (b) 6
physics. 12 of them teach mathematics while 4 teach both (c) 8 (d) 20
the subjects. Then the number of teachers teaching physics 70. If n( A)  4 , n(B)  3 , n( A  B  C)  24 , then n(C) 
only is
(a) 12 (b) 8 (a) 288 (b) 1
(c) 16 (d) None of these (c) 12 (d) 17
57. Of the members of three athletic teams in a school 21 are (e) 2
in the cricket team, 26 are in the hockey team and 29 are 71. The number of elements in the set
in the football team. Among them, 14 play hockey and {(a, b) : 2a 2  3b 2  35 , a, b  Z} , where Z is the set of all
cricket, 15 play hockey and football, and 12 play football integers, is
and cricket. Eight play all the three games. The total
(a) 2 (b) 4
number of members in the three athletic teams is
(c) 8 (d) 12
(a) 43 (b) 76
(e) 16
(c) 49 (d) None of these
72. If A  {1, 2, 3, 4 } ; B  {a, b} and f is a mapping such that
58. In a class of 100 students, 55 students have passed in
Mathematics and 67 students have passed in Physics. f : A  B , then A  B is
Then the number of students who have passed in Physics
(a) {(a, 1), (3, b)}
only is
(b) {(a, 2), (4, b)}
(a) 22 (b) 33 (c) {(1, a), (1, b), (2, a), (2, b), (3, a), (3, b), (4, a), (4, b)}
(c) 10 (d) 45 (d) None of these
59. If A and B are two sets, then A × B = B × A iff 73. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6}, C = {3, 4, 6}, then
(a) A  B (b) B  A ( A  B)  C is
(c) A  B (d) None of these
(a) {3, 4, 6} (b) {1, 2, 3}
60. If A and B be any two sets, then ( A  B) is equal to
(c) {1, 4, 3} (d) None of these
(a) A  Β (b) A  B
74. If A = {x, y} then the power set of A is
(c) A  B (d) A  B
61. Let A and B be subsets of a set X. Then
(a) A  B  A  B (b) A  B  A  B (a) { x x , y y }
(c) A  B  A c  B (d) A  B  A  B c (b) {, x, y}
62. Let A and B be two sets in the universal set. Then A  B (c) {, {x}, {2y}}
equals
(d) {, {x}, {y}, {x, y}}
(a) A  B c (b) A c  B
75. A set contains 2n  1 elements. The number of subsets of
(c) A  B (d) None of these
this set containing more than n elements is equal to
63. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A  (B  C) is equal
to
(a) ( A  B)  ( A  C) (b) ( A  B)  ( A  C) (a) 2n 1 (b) 2 n
(c) ( A  B)  C (d) ( A  B)  C (c) 2n 1 (d) 2 2 n
64. If A, B, C are three sets, then A  (B  C) is equal to 76. Which of the following is a true statement
(a) (A  B)  (A  C) (b) (A  B)  (A  C) (a) {a}  {a, b, c} (b) {a}  {a, b, c}
(c) (A  B)  (A  C) (d) None of these
(c)   {a, b, c} (d) None of these
65. If A = {1, 2, 4}, B = {2, 4, 5}, C = {2, 5}, then (A – B) × (B – C)
is 77. If A = {x : x is a multiple of 4} and B = {x : x is a multiple of
(a) {(1, 2), (1, 5), (2, 5)} (b) {(1, 4)} 6} then A  B consists of all multiples of
(c) (1, 4) (d) None of these (a) 16 (b) 12
66. If (1, 3), (2, 5) and (3, 3) are three elements of A × B and (c) 8 (d) 4
the total number of elements in A  B is 6, then the 78. A class has 175 students. The following data shows the
remaining elements of A  B are
number of students obtaining one or more subjects.
(a) (1, 5); (2, 3); (3, 5) (b) (5, 1); (3, 2); (5, 3)
(c) (1, 5); (2, 3); (5, 3) (d) None of these Mathematics 100, Physics 70, Chemistry 40; Mathematics
67. A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {3, 8}, then (A  B) × (A  B) is and Physics 30, Mathematics and Chemistry 28, Physics
(a) {(3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 8)} and Chemistry 23; Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
(b) {(1, 3), (2, 3), (3, 3), (8, 3)} 18. How many students have offered Mathematics alone
(c) {(1, 2), (2, 2), (3, 3), (8, 8)}
(d) {(8, 3), (8, 2), (8, 1), (8, 8)} (a) 35 (b) 48
68. If A = {2, 3, 5}, B = {2, 5, 6}, then (A – B) × (A  B) is
(c) 60 (d) 22
(a) {(3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 5)} (b) {(3, 2), (3, 5), (3, 6)}
(c) {(3, 2), (3, 5)} (d) None of these (e) 30
69. In a class of 30 pupils, 12 take needle work, 16 take 79. Consider the following relations :
physics and 18 take history. If all the 30 students take at
(1) A  B  A  ( A  B)
least one subject and no one takes all three then the
number of pupils taking 2 subjects is (2) A  ( A  B)  ( A  B)
 (3) A  (B  C)  ( A  B)  ( A  C)
which of these is/are correct
(a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2
80. If two sets A and B are having 99 elements in common,
then the number of elements common to each of the sets
A  B and B  A are
(a) 2 99 (b) 99 2
(c) 100 (d) 18
(e) 9
81. Given n(U)  20 , n( A)  12 , n(B)  9 , n( A  B)  4 ,
where U is the universal set, A and B are subsets of U, then
n(( A  B)C ) 
(a) 17 (b) 9
(c) 11 (d) 3
(e) 16

ANSWER SET

1 d 2 b 3 a 4 c 5 c
6 b 7 a 8 d 9 c 10 b
11 c 12 b 13 c 14 b 15 c
16 d 17 a 18 b 19 c 20 b
21 c 22 c 23 a,b 24 d 25 b
26 b 27 d 28 b 29 a 30 b
31 b 32 c 33 b 34 b 35 a
36 a 37 b 38 a 39 a 40 c
41 b 42 b 43 c 44 a 45 d
46 a 47 a 48 c 49 c 50 c
51 c 52 b 53 a 54 d 55 c
56 a 57 a 58 d 59 c 60 b
61 d 62 a 63 a 64 b 65 b
66 a 67 b 68 c 69 a 70 e
71 c 72 c 73 a 74 d 75 d
76 a 77 b 78 c 79 d 80 b
81 d