Set Theory Practice Questions
Set Theory Practice Questions
3. If 𝑋 = {{1}, {2}, {6}, {1, 4}, {2, 5}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 3, 5}} is a subset of 𝑃(𝐴), where 𝑃(𝐴) is power set of
𝐴, then minimum possible value of 𝑛(𝐴) is
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6
5. An organization awarded 48 medals in event 'A', 25 in event 'B' and 18 in event 'C'. If these
medals went to total 60 men and only five men got medals in all the three events, then, how
many received medals in exactly two of three events?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 21 (D) 9
6. Out of all the patients in a hospital 89% are found to be suffering from heart ailment and 98%
are suffering from lungs infection. If K% of them are suffering from both ailments, then K can not
belong to the set :
(A) {80, 83, 86, 89} (B) {84, 86, 88, 90}
(C) {79, 81, 83, 85} (D) {84, 87, 90, 93}
7. Set Fn gives all factors of n. Set Mn gives all multiples of n less than 1000. Which of the following
statements is/are true?
I F108 ∩ F84 = F12
II M12 ∪ M18 = M36
III M12 ∩ M18 = M36
IV M12 ⊂ (M6 ∩ M4)
(A) I, II and III only (B) I, III and IV only
(C) I and III only (D) All statements are true
8. Set P comprises all multiples of 4 less than 500. Set Q comprises all odd multiples of 7 less
than 500, Set R comprises all multiples of 6 less than 500. How many elements are present in
{P ∪ Q ∪ R}?
(A) 202 (B) 243 (C) 228 (D) 186
9. In a school, there are three types of games to be played. Some of the students play two types of
games, but none play all the three games. Which Venn diagrams can justify the above
statement?
10. 95% of the students in a class have taken Marketing, 80% have chosen Finance, 84% have
chosen operations (ops), and 90% have chosen Human Resources (HR). What is the maximum
and minimum percentage of people who have chosen all the four?
(A) 80, 56 (B) 95, 53 (C) 80, 49 (D) 80, 51
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Information for Q 11 and 12
In a survey it was found that 10% people don’t use Facebook, Twitter or Whatsapp. 8% uses all the
three. There are 15% who use Facebook and Twitter only, 20% who use Twitter and Whatsapp only
and 20% who use Facebook and Whatsapp only. Number of people that use only Facebook, only
Twitter and only Whatsapp are equal. If the survey was conducted on 1000 people, answer the
following:
12. What is the ratio of number of people that uses Whatsapp only to the people using either
Whatsapp or Facebook or both?
1 1 1 1
(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 9
13. In class of 280 students, each student needs to choose between the three extra subject (i.e IT,
Hindi, and Sanskrit) offered along with the course. The students that choose each of these
subjects are 160, 130, 110. The number of students who choose more than one of the three is
40% more than the number of students who choose all the three subjects If there are no
students who choose none of the 3 subjects, how many students study all the three subjects?
(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 80 (D) 100
14. In a survey it was found that, the number of people that like only Pepsi, only Coke, both Coke
69 69
and Pepsi and neither of them are 2n, 3n, 𝑛 , 3𝑛 respectively. What is the number of people who
drink coke?
(A) 72 (B) 49 (C) both A and B (D) can not be determined
15. For two sets A and B, let AΔB denote the set of elements which belong to A or B but not both. If P =
{1,2,3,4}, Q = {2,3,5,6,}, R = {1,3,7,8,9}, S = {2,4,9,10}, then the number of elements in
(PΔQ)Δ(RΔS) is
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 6
In a class of 345 students, the students who took English, Math and Science are equal in number. There
are 30 students who took both English and Math, 26 who took both Math and Science, 28 who took
Science and English and 14 who took all the 3 subjects.There are 43 students who didn’t take any of the
subjects. Answer the following question according to the data given above.
18. Of 60 students in a class, anyone who has chosen to study maths elects to do physics as well.
But no one does maths and chemistry, 16 do physics and chemistry. All the students do at least
one of the three subjects and the number of people who do exactly one of the three is more
than the number who do more than one of the three. What are the maximum and minimum
number of people who could have done Chemistry only?
(A) 40, 0 (B) 28, 0 (C) 38, 2 (D) 44, 0
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19. A’ is defined as the complement of A, as in, set of all elements that are part of the universal set
but not in A. How many of the following must be true?
I. {n(A ∪ B)' =n(A' ∩ B')}
II. If {A ∩ B=0}, then {A' ∪ B'} is equal to the universal set
III. If {A ∪ B} = universal set, then {A' ∩ B'} should be the null set.
IV. If {A ⊂ B} then {A' ∪ B' = (A ∩ B)'}
Answer Key
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. A
5. C 6. C 7. B 8. A
9. D 10. C 11. D 12. D
13. B 14. A 15. A 16. B
17. B 18. D 19. D
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