ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM

Caraga Region – Division of Butuan City

ACTIVITY SHEETS FOR LEARNING STRAND 3: MATHEMATICAL AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

Name Date
School/CLC District
Level Basic Literacy Lower Elementary Advance Elementary Junior High School Quarter
LAS
LAS Title Sets and Subsets No. 1 Score
Learning Define set and other related terms.
Competency Find the subsets of a given set.
I. Concept Notes
Set – is a group of well – defined definite objects called elements (∈).
 Capital letters are used to denote set and lower case for .
 A set with no element is an empty set or null set, symbolized as Ø or {}.
Notation of sets. There are three common ways to describe a set.
1. Roster Notation
 List each element of the set inside the symbol {}.
 The use of three dots (…) called ellipsis means the ∈ of set continue infinitely.
 A = {1,2,3,4,5}
2. Verbal Description
 Describe the set in words
 Set A is the set of counting numbers less than 6.
3. Set Builder Notation
 List the properties which specify the whole common characteristics of the
elements ∈ of set not the actual ∈.
 A = {x/ x is a counting numbers >6}
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When a set is contained in another set, for instance, every element of set A is in set B,
then set A is a subset of set B. Written as A⊆B.
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Every set (A) is a subset of itself (A⊆A).
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An empty set is a subset of every set (A) (Ø⊆A).
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If in set B there is at least one element not contained in Set A, it is referred to as proper
subset i.e Set A is a proper subset of B: A ⊆ B.
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To get the total number of subsets, use the formula;
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Total number of subsets = 2n
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Where n is the total number of elements in the given set.

EXAMPLES:
Find all the subsets of set A = {1,2,3,4} Subsets =
Solution: Given, A = {1,2,3,4} {}
{1}, {2}, {3}, {4},
{1,2}, {1,3}, {1,4}, {2,3},{2,4}, {3,4},
{1,2,3}, {2,3,4}, {1,3,4}, {1,2,4}
{1,2,3,4}
II. EXERCISES
Write all the subsets for the following.
(a) {3} (e) {a, b, c}
(b) {6, 11} (f) ∅
(c) {2, 5, 9} (g) {p, q, r, s}
(d) {1, 2, 6, 7}