11 Set Notation and Venn Diag
11 Set Notation and Venn Diag
11 Set Notation and Venn Diag
Venn diagrams are a visual way to represent sets of data (in groups). A set is a collection
or group of objects, called elements or members. We name the sets with letters and
describe the elements within the set by:
Listing all elements inside braces
e.g. S= { 1, 3 , 5 ,7 ,9 }
Writing a description of the elements inside braces
e.g. T ={ odd integers ¿0¿10 }
A set is called an empty set if it has no members at all. The symbol for an empty set is ∅ .
e.g. if D= { odd integers between 1.5∧2 }, then D= ∅.
The universal set is the set of all objects we are considering in a particular situation. The
symbol for the universal set is U orε .
Two sets A and B are mutually exclusive if they have no elements in common, meaning
A ∩ B= ∅
Just like complementary events, the complement of set A , written as A or A ' , is the set of
all members in that universal set which are not in A .
e.g. if A={ 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 } and E={ integers¿ 1¿ 9 } then A={ 1 ,3 , 5 ,7 , 9 } .
p ( A )=1−P( A)
Venn diagrams are used to represent two or more attributes and shaded to show the
three key situations of and, or and not.
Discuss example 3, 4