Open Query 23

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course Mth 151

If your solution to stated problem does not match the given solution, you should self-critique per instructions at

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Your solution, attempt at solution. If you are unable to attempt a solution, give a phrase-by-phrase interpretation of the problem along with a statement of what you do or do not understand about it. This response should be given, based on the work you did in completing the assignment, before you look at the given solution.

003. Intersection, Union, Complement, de Morgans Laws

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Question: `q001. Note that there are 6 questions in this assignment.

Again we have a total of 35 people in a room. Of these, 20 have dark hair and 15 have bright eyes. There are 8 people with dark hair and bright eyes.

Let A stand for the collection of people who have dark hair and B for the collection who have bright eyes. The Intersection of these two collections is denoted A ^ B, and stands for the collection of all people who have both dark hair and bright eyes. The Union of these two collections is denoted A U B, and stands for the collection of all people who have at least one of these characteristics.

In terms of the diagram you made for the preceding problem, describe the collection A ^ B and the collection A U B. Give the number of people in each of these collections (these numbers are designated by the notation n ( A ^ B) and n(A U B) ). Refer to the diagrams you have made.

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Your solution:

8(A^B)

27(AUB)

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Given Solution:

The collection A ^ B consists of all the people with both dark hair and bright eyes, which corresponds to the overlap between the two circles (region I). There are 8 people in this overlap, so we say n(A ^ B) = 8.

The collection A U B consists of all the people who have least one of the characteristics. This would include the 12 people with dark hair but not bright eyes, located in the first circle but outside the overlap (region II); plus the 7 people with bright eyes but not dark hair, located in the second circle but outside the overlap (region III); plus the 8 people with both characteristics, located in the overlap (region I). Thus we include the 12 + 8 + 7 = 27 people who might be located anywhere within the two circles.

The figure below, also seen in the QA for Assignment 2, represents this situation

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Self-critique (if necessary): Does it have to be presented “n(A^B)=8”, or is the way I wrote it, “8(A^B)” acceptable?

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We use n (A ^ B) so express the cardinal number as a function of A and B. The name of the function is n.

We don't want to change the name of the function for each instance of A and B, so it's not appropriate to substitute the number n for the name of the function.

In other words, it's correct to write this as

n(A ^ B) = 8,

which could be read as 'the number of elements in A ^ B is 8".

but not to write it as 8(A^B). There would be no good way to read this as a statement of equality.

So your notation would likely lead to confusion.

That doesn't mean that you didn't solve the problem correctly. Your work was good, and it's particularly good that you asked the question.

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Question: `q002. Continuing the preceding example, we let A' stand for the people who are not in the collection A, and we let B' stand for the people who are not in the collection B.

What are the characteristics of the people in A', and what characterizes people in B' ? What are n(A ') and n(B '), the numbers of people in A' and B' ?

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Your solution:

Ok so I’m assuming this means everyone, and not just the people outside the diagram. So people who do not have dark hair would include the former set B and the outside, so

15(A)

The “new” B would be people in all of the 35 who are without bright eyes

20(B)

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Given Solution:

Of the 35 people, those in A' are those outside of A. Since A consists of all the dark-haired people, A' consists of all the people lacking dark hair. This includes the 8 people outside of both circles (people having neither dark hair nor bright eyes, region IV) and the 7 people in the second circle but outside the overlap (people having bright eyes but not dark hair, region III). n(A ' ) is therefore 8 + 7 = 15.

Since B consists of all the bright-eyed people, B' consists of all the people lacking bright eyes. This would include the 8 people outside both circles (region IV), all of whom lack both dark hair and bright eyes, and the 12 people in the first circle but outside the overlap (region II), who have dark hair but not bright eyes. n ( B ' ) is therefore 12 + 8 = 20.

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Self-critique (if necessary): OK

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Question: `q003. ( A U B ) ' stands for the everyone outside A U B, and ( A ^ B ) ' stands for everyone outside A ^ B. What characterizes the people in each of these collections, and how many people are there in each?

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Your solution:

A U B ‘ now includes everyone who is not in the diagram, which was previously determined as 8.

8(AUB)’

(A ^ B)’ Is now everyone who is not in the overlapping area of both dark hair and bright eyes, which includes A, B, and IV

27(A^B)’

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Given Solution:

A U B consists of everyone having at least one of the characteristics (dark hair, bright eyes), and is represented by the numbers in the two circles (regions I, II, III). ( A U B ) ' consists of the people who do not have at least one of the characteristics, and is represented by the number outside both circles (region IV). This number is 8, representing the 8 people who have neither dark hair nor bright eyes.

A ^ B stands for all the people with both of the two characteristics (represented by the overlap, region I), so ( A ^ B ) ' stands for all the people who do not have both of the two characteristics (represented by everything outside region I, or regions II, III and IV). [ Note that (A ^ B)' is not the same as the collection of people who have neither characteristic. Anyone who does not have both characteristics will be in ( A ^ B ) ' . ] ( A ^ B )' must include those who have neither characteristic, and also those who have only one of the characteristics.

The 8 people outside both circles, the 12 people in the first circle but outside the overlap, and the 7 people in the second circle but outside the overlap all lack at least one characteristic to, so these 8 + 12 + 7 = 27 people make up( A ^ B ) '.

In the figure below:

AU B includes every region in the figure below that is part of A, as well as every region that is part of B. This description is true of every region I, II and III.

The only region not in A U B is region IV, so (A U B) ' consists of region IV.

A ^ B includes those regions which are both part of A and part of B. The only such region is Region I.

None of the regions II, III and IV can be said to be part of A as well as part of B. Thus ( A ^ B) ' consists of these three regions.

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Self-critique (if necessary):OK

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Question: `q004. How many people are in A ' U B ', and how could those people be characterized? Answer the same for A ' ^ B '.

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Your solution:

There are 27 people in A’ U B’ and can be characterized as people having either dark hair, bright eyes, or neither.

In A’ ^ B’ are the people who have neither bright eyes or dark hair and totals 8.

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Given Solution:

A ' U B ' consists of all the people who are in at least one of the sets A ' or B '.

A ' consists of all the people who do not have dark hair, represented by every region of the diagram which does not include any of A. This will include the 7 people in B who are outside the overlapping region, and the 8 people who are outside of both A and B (regions III and IV. Since A consists of regions I and II, A' consists of regions III and IV). B ' consists of all the people who do not have bright eyes, represented by every region of the diagram which does not include any of B (regions II and IV). This will include the 12 people in A but outside the overlap, and the 8 people outside of both A and B. Thus A ' U B ' consists of everyone in at least one of A ' or B ', including the 7 people in B but outside the overlap (region III), the 12 people in A let outside the overlap (region II), and the 8 people outside of both A and B (region IV). These will be the people who lack at least one of the characteristics dark hair and/or bright eyes.

Thus n(A' U B') = 7 + 12 + 8 = 27. Note that these are the same 27 people who are in ( A ^ B ) '. So at least in this case, ( A ^ B ) ' = A ' U B '.

A ' ^ B ' consists of all the people in both A ' and B '. As before A ' includes the 7 people in B but not A (region III) as well as the 8 people outside both A and B (region IV), and B ' includes the 12 people in A but not B (region II) as well as the 8 people outside both A and B (region IV). The people in both A ' and B ' will be the 8 people outside both A and B, those who have neither dark hair nor bright eyes.

We note that this is the same as the set ( A U B ) ', so at least for the present case we see that ( A ' ^ B ' = ( A U B ) '.

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Self-critique (if necessary): I was unsure if the people who had neither characteristic would be counted (not sure why they wouldn’t be but there was that doubt nonetheless) and that is why I gave myself a 2.

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Question: `q005. Succinctly describe the relationships between ( A U B ) ', A ' U B ', (A ^ B) ' and A ' ^ B '.

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Your solution:

All of them described the same group of people, but divide them up in different ways. The alteration of one category alters the state of the rest of the groups.

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Given Solution:

( A U B ) ' = A ' ^ B ' and ( A ^ B ) ' = A ' U B '. The collection outside of the union A U B is the intersection A ' ^ B ', and the collection outside the intersection A ^ B is the union A ' U B '. The ' operation changes union to intersection and intersection to union.

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Self-critique (if necessary): Well that’s kinda what I said without the terminology.

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Question: `q006. Suppose there are 200 people in a hall, 140 having dark hair, 90 having short hair and 50 having hair which is neither dark nor short. Let A be the set of people with dark hair, B the set of people with short hair.

Describe each of the following sets, indicate how many people are in each and explain how you got each result:

A ' ^ B

A U B '

(A ^ B) '

(A U B) '

(A ' U B ' ) '

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Your solution:

First we determine how many are in each set, which was done in a previous assignment, so I=80, II=60, III=10, and IV=50

Using this we can determine that the sum of those who are NOT in group A, but ARE in group B

A’ ^ B=10

The next we find the sum of those total that ARE in group A, AND are NOT in group B

A U B ‘= 110

Next is those that are NOT in BOTH A and B

120(A^B)’

And NOT in either A, nor B

50(A U B)’

And not NOT in the diagram

150(A’ U B’)’

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