Query 1

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course MTH 151

02/18/13 4:00

001. `Query 1

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Question: `qQuery 2.1.12 counting #'s 4 to 14

List the elements of the set.

 

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Your solution:

{4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14}

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Given Solution:

`a**For the set of counting numbers from 4 through 14 the list of the elements would be 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

To indicate the set of these element using a list format we would write the set as {4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14}.

If we are asked for the set of counting numbers between 4 and 14 we would write the set as {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}.

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Question: `qquery 2.1.24 listing for set of presidents after Nixon and before Obama (formerly between LBJ and Clinton)

 

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Your solution:

{ Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, George HW Bush}

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Given Solution:

`a** The solution given here is for presidents between Johnson and Clinton. A listing would be {}{}{ Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, George HW Bush}.{}{}Set-builder notation is {x|x is a president who served between Lyndon Johnson and William Clinton}

x is a variable and the condition 'x is a president who served between Lyndon Johnson and William Clinton' tells you what possible things the variable can be.

COMMON ERROR: It's incorrect to say {x | x is the set of presidents who served between Johnson and Clinton}.

x is a president, not a set of presidents. Should be {x|x is a president who served between Lyndon Johnson and William Clinton} **

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Question: `q2.1.44 finite or infinite: set of rat #'s 0 to 1

 

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Your solution:

infinite set

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Given Solution:

`a** Rational numbers have form p/q, where p and q are integers. Numbers like 5/8, 57/31, -3/5, -57843/7843, etc.

The subset {1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, ... } is just by itself an infinite set of rational numbers between 0 and 1.

Then you have things like 348/937, and 39827389871 / 4982743789, and a whole infinite bunch of others. There are thus infinitely many rational numbers in any interval of the real line.

COMMON MISCONCEPTION: finite, because it doesn't go on forever

Rational numbers have form p/q, where p and q are integers. Numbers like 5/8, 57/31, -3/5, -57843/7843, etc. Not all of these lie between 0 and 1, of course. **

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Question: `q2.1.48 n(A), A={x|x is a U.S. senator}

What is n(A) and why?

 

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Your solution:

The number of U.S senators is 100

2*50=100

2 Senators from each state

50 states in the U.S

n(A) = 100

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Given Solution:

`a** n(A) stands for the number of elements in the set--in this case for the number of senators. There are 100, 2 from each State. So n(A) = 100. **

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Question: `qquery Is {x|x is negative number} well-defined?

 

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Your solution:

Yes it is well-defined because you have of a way of telling if a number is negative or not

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Given Solution:

`a** This notation means all possible values of x such that x is a negative number.

The question is whether the set is well-defined or not.

It is in fact well-defined because there is a definite way to decide whether a given object is an element of the set, because there is a definite way to determine whether an object is a negative number or not.

ALTERNATIVE ANSWER: The set is well-defined because you have a criterion by which you can definitely decide whether something is or is not in the set. **

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