SET THEORY

Which of the following collections are sets? Justify

your answer:

(i) A collection of all natural numbers less than 50.

(ii) The collection of good hockey players in US.
(iii) The collection of all the girls in your class.
(iv) The collection of all talented writers of India.
(v) The collection of difficult topics in Mathematics.
(i) It is a set. As we are saying all numbers less than 50 it is a
definite quantity hence it is a set.

(ii) It is not a set. Because when we say good hockey players,

it changes opinion wise and cannot be well defined or is not
countable.

(iii) It is a set. As we are saying a collection of all the girls in

your class it is a definite quantity hence it is a set.

(iv) It is not a set. Because when we say a collection of all

talented writers of India, it changes opinion wise and cannot
be well defined or is not countable.

(v) It is not a set. Because when we say a collection of all

talented writers of India, it changes opinion wise and cannot
be well defined or is not countable.
 Sets are named with the capital letters A, B, C,
etc.

 The elements of a set are denoted by the small

letters a, b, c, etc.
 For example,

Consider the set A = {1, 3, 5, 9}

1 is an element of A, written as 1 A
3 is an element of A, written as 3  A
8 is not an element of A, written as 8 A
 A

B C
 Venn Diagrams

We use diagrams or pictures in geometry to explain

a concept or a situation and sometimes we also
use them to solve problems. In mathematics, we
use diagrammatic representations called Venn
Diagrams to visualise the relationships between
sets and set operations.
Example: