MATHEMATICS

CLASS: XI NAME: _________

1. Which of the following collections are sets? Justify your answer.
(i)
A collection of all natural number less than 50
(ii) The collection of good hockey players of India
(iii) The collection of prime integers
2. Describe the following sets in Roster form ;
(i)
{x : x is a letter before e in English alphabets }
(ii) {x : x N , x2 25 }
(iii) {x : x is a prime number which is a divisor of 60 }
(iv) {x : x is a letter of word TRIGONOMETRY }
3. Describe the following set in Set builder form :
(v)
A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }
(vi) B = {1, 1/2, 1/3,1/ 4,1/ 5, . }
(vii) C = {5, 25, 125, 625 }
(viii) D = {2, 4, 6, 8, ... }
4. If X = {8n 7n -1 : n N} and Y= {49 (n 1) : n N} , then prove that X Y
5. By using set theory prove that : (i) ( A B) = A B (ii) ( A B) = A B
6. In a group of 800 people, 550 can speak Hindi and 450 can speak English . How
many can speak both Hindi and English.
7. A market research group conducted a survey on 2000 consumers and reported that
1720consumers liked product P1 and 1450 consumers liked product P2. What is the
least number that must have liked both the products?
8. In a group of 25 students , it was found 15 had taken Mathematics , 12 had taken
physics and 11 had taken chemistry , 5 had taken Mathematics and Chemistry , 9
had taken Mathematics and Physics , 4 had taken Physics andChemistry and 3 had
taken all the three Subjects . find the number of students that had
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)

Only Mathematics
Only Chemistry
Only Physics
Physics and chemistry but not Mathematics
Mathematics and physics but not Chemistry
Only one of the subjects
At least one of the subjects
None of the subjects

9. Two finite sets have m and n elements respectively. The total number of subsets of
first set is 56 more than the total number of subsets of second set. Then find the
value of m and n.
10. A Survey shows 63 % of people watch news channel whereas 76 %watch another
channel. If x % of people watch both channels then find the value of x.
11. A college awarded 38 medals in football, 15 in basketball and 20 in cricket. If these
medals went to a total of 58 men and only 3 men got medals in all the three sports.
How many received in exactly two of the three sports.
12. In a group of students, 100 students know Hindi, 50 know English 25 know both.
Each of the students knows either Hindi or English. How many students are there in
the group?
13. In a survey of 60 people, it was found that 25 people read newspaper H , 26 read
newspaper T, 26 read newspaper I , 9 read both H and I , 11 read both H and T , 8
read both I and T , 3 read all three newspaper find
(i)
The number of people who read at least one of the newspaper
(ii) The number of people who read exactly one newspaper
14. If A, B,.C are three sets and U is the universal set such that n (U) = 700 , n (A) =200
, n (B) = 300 , n (A B ) = 100 find n ( A B )
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15. If A, B, and C are any three sets then prove that :

(i)
A ( B C ) = ( A B) ( A C )
(ii)
A ( B C ) = ( A B) ( A C )
(iii) A ( B C ) = ( A B) ( A C )