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Notation and Description of Sets

1. The document discusses three ways to describe sets: roster notation, verbal description, and set builder notation. 2. Roster notation lists the elements of a set inside curly brackets. Verbal description describes a set in words. Set builder notation uses quantifiers to define the properties an element must have to be part of the set. 3. One example given is set D, the set of natural satellites of Earth, expressed in set builder notation as {x | x is a natural satellite of the Earth}.
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Notation and Description of Sets

1. The document discusses three ways to describe sets: roster notation, verbal description, and set builder notation. 2. Roster notation lists the elements of a set inside curly brackets. Verbal description describes a set in words. Set builder notation uses quantifiers to define the properties an element must have to be part of the set. 3. One example given is set D, the set of natural satellites of Earth, expressed in set builder notation as {x | x is a natural satellite of the Earth}.
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Name: _______________________________ • Set D is the set of a natural earth

satellite
Section: ______________________________
3. The Set Builder Notation
Date: ________________________________
It is a method that lists the rules that
Lesson: Describing a Sets
determine whether an object is an element of
We use capital letters such as A, B, C, D, and the set rather than the actual elements.
E to denote sets and lowercase letters as a, b,
Examples:
c, d, and e to denote the elements of a set. It
is also a common practice to list the elements • A = {x | x is a counting number less than
of a set in braces, { }, and separate these 5} read as “the set of all x’s such that x
elements by commas. Thus, A = {5, 10, 15, is a counting number less than 5.”
20} means “A set consisting of the elements • B = { x | x is a letter in the word
5, 10, 15, 20.” To indicate 5 is an element of “Philippines”}
Set A, we write “5 ϵ A” and read “5 is an • C = { x | x is a positive multiples of 5}
element of A” or “5 is a member of A.” The • D = { x | x is a natural satellite of the
symbol ϵ is read “is an element of” or “is a earth}
member of” and the notation ϵ is read “is not
an element of.” A set with no element is an
empty set or null set. The symbol for empty Let’s Do It! __________
set is Φ or { }.
Direction: Write the following sets into Verbal
If a set contain many elements, we often use Description and Set Builder Notation.
three dots, …, called ellipsis, to indicate there
are elements in the set that have not been 1. A = {a, e, i, o, u}
written down.
2. M = {3, 6, 9,…, 30}
Examples:
3. E = {Monday, Tuesday,…, Sunday}
• N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …} 4. T = {January, February, March, . . .,
• W = {0, 1, 2, 3, …} December}
There are three ways in which we can describe
a set.
Verbal Description
1. The Roster Notation or Listing Method
1.
This is a method describing a set by
listing each element of the set inside the
symbol { }. In listing the elements of the set, 2.
each distinct is listed once and the order of the
elements does not matter.
Examples: 3.

• A = {1, 2, 3, 4}
• B = {p, h, i, l, n, e, s} 4.
• C = {5, 10, 15, …}
• D = {moon}
2. The Verbal Description Method Set Builder Notation

It is a method of describing a set in 1.


words.
Examples: 2.
• Set A is the set of counting number less
than 5.
• Set B is the set of letters in the word 3.
“Philippines”.
• Set C is the set of positive multiples of
5. 4.

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