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Dear Community,

any material for explanation of the concept of "Subsets" - How to treat them / Formulas / General Idea behind it / What do they exactly describe?

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I am assuming you want overlapping set theory and corresponding questions.

The theory is at the link : advanced-overlapping-sets-problems-144260.html

Questions are at the links:

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For the sake of completeness, the set theory is located at: math-standard-deviation-87905.html

Questions: search.php?search_id=tag&tag_id=34
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Hello,

I am refering to problems such as this one:

if-set-b-is-a-subset-of-set-a-how-many-elements-are-in-set-143266.html

I have no idea to approach them as I don't know about the concept of subsets.
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I am refering to problems such as this one:

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I have no idea to approach them as I don't know about the concept of subsets.
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There is no additional theory that you need to know apart from how the sets are formed.

Sets consist of 'elements' that can be related to each other as in {1,2,3,4,5...} or unrelated {1,3,10,50,77...}. Subsets can be any numbr of elements (even 0) from the original set. Null set ({}) is a subset of every set.

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Given set is : {a,b,c}

Subsets are: {}, {a},{b},{c},{a,b} etc

The above questions as well requires the theory mentioned above.

We have been asked how many elements does the main set (A) have if we are given that B is a subset of A.

Now from the example set above ({a,b,c}), we see that if B would have been {a} or {b} or {a,c} etc, then we wouldnt have known the number of elements in A (=3). This is what is mentioned in Statement 1 and is thus not sufficient.

Statement 2 mentions that 80% of the elements in A are not in B. This means that if we have a set {1,2,3,4,5}, B can have 1 element. But if we have a set A as {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}, then B has 2 elements. In other words, 20% of the elements in A are in B. Thus the given information is not sufficient to arrive at an answer.

Combining the 2 statements, we see that B = 14 elements and B is also 20% of elements of A and thus 0.2A=14, thus giving the value of number of elements of A. Thus C is the OA.
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