Assignment 03

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course MTH 151

9:42pm, 2/3/14

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:

A ^ B is the intersection of the two collections, people with dark hair and people with bright eyes. A ^ B shows the collection of people who have both. 8 ( A ^ B ), because there are 8 people with both dark hair and bright eyes. A U B shows the collection of people with at least one of these characteristics. There are 8 people that have both dark hair and bright eyes. Total, there are 23 people with bright eyes, and 28 people with dark hair total. If we subtract these totals from the total amount of people, 35, we are left with 12 and 7. Together, we add the 8 (from those with both), 12 and 7 to get 27. There are 27 people who could have at least one of these characteristics.

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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):

I found this problem to be tricky at first, but I was able to figure it out somewhat easily after breaking it down and simplifying it.

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Self-critique Rating: 3

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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:

Group A would include all individuals with dark hair, so A’ would contain those who do not have dark hair. Group B would include all people with bright eyes, so B’ would contain those who do not have bright eyes. For n(A’), our numbers would include the 8 people included in both categories, as well as the 7 people who had bright eyes but no dark hair. So 15(A’). For n(B’), our numbers would include the 8 people meeting both criteria, but also the 12 individuals with dark hair, but no bright eyes. So 20(B’).

confidence rating #$&*: 3

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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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Self-critique Rating: 3

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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) is characterized by each person who has at least one of the characteristics (dark hair or bright eyes or both), (A U B)’ would show the people who do not have at least one of these characteristics. The number representing (A U B)’ would be 8. (A ^ B) shows us the people with both traits, so (A ^ B)’ would represent the people who do not have both traits. These people would not have any of the traits.

confidence rating #$&*: 2

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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):

Finding these problems a little tricky/confusing, but feel like I may be getting the hang of it eventually.

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Self-critique Rating: 2

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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:

A ‘ U B’ would contain any of the people that were included in either A’ or B’. This would include everyone who does not have at least one of the traits (either dark hair or bright eyes).

confidence rating #$&*: 2

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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):

OK

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Self-critique Rating: 3

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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:

One common factor between all of these groups is that they usually contain the same numbers. For example, (A ^ B)’ and (A’ ^ B’) contain similar people. One pattern could be that what one group does not have (one group that does not have dark hair or bright eyes), another group contains (people with dark hair and/or bright eyes).

confidence rating #$&*: 2

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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):

OK

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Self-critique Rating: 2

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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) '

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Your solution:

A = 140; B = 90; A ‘ ^ B would include people who do not have dark hair, but have short hair, because A represents people with dark hair, and B represents people with short hair. This would give us 150 people with short hair that is not dark.

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Good description but your numbers are off.

There are only 200 people and 140 have dark hair, so you can't have 150 people who have, among other characteristics, hair that isn't dark.

There are in fact 150 people whose hair is either dark or short, and 50 whose hair is neither.

That 150 includes the 140 with dark hair and the 90 with short hair.

The only way this can be is if there are only 10 short-haired people who are not dark-haired. That would give you 80 who are short-and-dark-haired, 60 who are dark-but-not-short-haired, 10 who are neither short-but-not-dark-haired, and the remaining 50 who are neither.

If you sketch the Venn diagram with two interlocking circles, there will be 50 outside the circles and 80 in the overlap.

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A U B ‘ would represent the people with both dark hair and short hair, this would be 170 people, because it includes the 60 people that do not have dark hair, as well as the 110 who do not have short hair. (A U B) ‘ would include the people with neither dark hair or short hair. This number would be 50, given in the question. When it comes to figuring out (A ^ B) ‘, (A U B) ‘, and (A ‘ U B ‘) ‘ , I am a little lost. If I had to guess, I would say that (A U B)’ would represent people that could fit into any/all categories, but I am confused.

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Self-critique Rating: I am struggling with these concepts, and trying to figure out which would belong to with group as the problems become more complicated and complex.

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Check my notes.

Having dealt with these concepts you will very likely find that the text clarifies them.

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