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Chapter 1 Problem Set

This document contains a problem set on mathematical concepts including sets, relations, functions, and their properties. It includes 14 problems covering topics like describing sets using roster and rule notation, determining set relationships like intersections and unions, writing relations as sets of ordered pairs and finding their domains and ranges, evaluating and graphing various functions, and finding inverses of functions.
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Chapter 1 Problem Set

This document contains a problem set on mathematical concepts including sets, relations, functions, and their properties. It includes 14 problems covering topics like describing sets using roster and rule notation, determining set relationships like intersections and unions, writing relations as sets of ordered pairs and finding their domains and ranges, evaluating and graphing various functions, and finding inverses of functions.
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Mathematics in the Modern World GEC 14 Teachers

Problem Set 1:
(1) Describe the following sets by both the roster and the rule method. (a)
The set T of even numbers greater than 0 but less than 10
T= {2, 4,6, 8}
T= { X|X is a set of even numbers greater than 0 but less than 10}

(b) The set C of the distinct letters in the word “carpenter”

C= { c,a,r,p,e,n, t, e, r }
C= { X|X is a set of distinct letters in word “carpenter” }

(2) Consider the following sets:


X is the set of distinct letters in the word “purse”
X=( p,u,r,s,e)
Y is the set of distinct letters in the word “pure”
Y= (p,u,r,e)
Z is the set of distinct letters in the word “reap”
Z= r,e,a,p)

Decide whether each statement below is true or false.


(a) Y ⊆ X = False
(b) Z ⊂ X = False
(c) X − Z ⊆ Y = False
(d) Y and Z are joint sets = True
(3) Let

U = {x | x is a distinct letter in the word ”dictionary”}

U = {d,i,c,t,i,o,a,r,y}
A = {x | x is a distinct letter in the word ”diary”}
A = {d,i,a,r,y}
B = {x | x is a distinct letter in the word ”nation”}
B = {n,a,t,i,o,n}
C = {x | x is a distinct letter in the word ”crayon”}
C = {c,r,a,y,o,n}

Find:
(a) A ∩ B
c
(b) (A ∪ C)
c
(c) A ∩ C
(d) (A − B) ∪ C
(4) Find the powers set of N = {a, k, o}.
(5) In the given diagram

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Shade the area represented by


(a) A ∩ C

c
(b) (B ∪ C)

(c) B − (A ∩ C)
(6) Solve the following problem using Venn Diagram.

In the CMU 2020 Palaro, there were athletes who played more than one of
the three major ball games, namely, basketball(B), football(F) and volleyball(V) as
follows:

16 athletes played basketball


18 athletes played footbal
12 athletes playes volleyball
2 athletes played basketball and football
3 athletes played basketball and volleyball
2 athletes played football and volleyball
1 athlete played all three major ball games

(a) What is the total number of athletes playing the three major ball games? (b)
How many athletes played exactly two major ball games?
(c) How many athletes played basketball but not volleyball?
(d) How many athletes played both football and volleyball but not basketball? (e)
How many athletes played volleyball but not basketball and football?
(7) Write the relation as a set of ordered pairs, and determine its domain and range.
x y

0 3

−2 1
2

−7 1

−2 8

5 1

(8) Write the relation as a set of ordered pairs, and determine its domain and range.
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(9) Write the relation as a set of ordered pairs, and determine its domain and range.

(10) Determine the domain and range of the graph below:

(11) Determine the domain and range of the graph below:

(12) For each item below, determine if the relation define y as a function of x. (a)

(b) {(4, 2),(−5, 4),(0, 0),(8, 4)}


(c) {(−1, 6),(8, 9),(−1, 4),(−3, 10)}
(13) Use the vertical line test to determine whether the relation define y as a function
of x.

(14) Given the function defined by g(x) = 4x − 3, find the function values, (a)
g( a)
(b) g(x + h)
(15) Write the domain and range for:
(a) f(x) = −6
(b) g(x) = 6 + x

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2x+1
(c) h(x) =
x−9
(16) Sketch the graph of g(x) = 6 + x.

(17) Given the function defined by h(x) = √x − 1. Evaluate the function for the given
values of x: h(1), h(2), h(3), h(6), h(10).

(18) Given the function defined by f(x) = √1 − x. Write the domain and range of f . Graph f
by making a table of ordered pairs.
(19) Find the domain, range, and inverse of each function.
(a) g(x) = 4x − 8
(b) h(x) = {(−6, 2),(−9, 0),(−2, −1),(3, 4)}
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(c) f(x) =
x+2
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