SETS

FURTHER MATHEMATICS SSS1 FIRST TERM   

WEEK 5

SETS

Contents

 

• Idea of a set, set notations and applications.
• Disjoint sets , Venn diagram

A. IDEA OF SET, NOTATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS.

Definitions:

           A set can be defined as a group or a collection of well-defined objects or numbers e.g collection of books, or cooking utensils.

          A set is denoted by capital letters such as P, Q, and R e.t.c while small letters are used to denote the elements e.g. a, b, c

 

Elements of a set: These are the elements or members of a given set. The elements are separated by commas and enclosed by a curly bracket {}

  e.g M ={ 1, 3 ,5, 7,…