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SETS
SET : A set is a collection of well defined objects which are distinct from each other
Set are generally denoted by capital letters A, B, C, …. etc. and the elements of the set by a, b, c… etc.
If a is an element of a set A, then we write a  A and say a belongs to A.
If a does not belong to A then we write a  A,
Ex. The collection of first five prime natural numbers is a set containing the elements 2, 3, 5, 7, 11.

SOME IMPORTANT NUMBER SETS :

N = Set of all natural numbers
= {1, 2, 3, 4, ….}
W = Set of all whole numbers
= {0, 1, 2, 3, ….}
Z or I set of all integers
= {…. –3, –2, –1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ….}
Z+ = Set of all + ve integers
= {1, 2, 3, ….} = N.
–
Z = Set of all – ve integers
= {–1, –2, –3, ….}
Z0 = The set of all non–zero integers
= {±1, ±2, ±3, ….}
Q = The set of all rational numbers
p 
=  : p,q  I,q  0
q 
R = The set of all real numbers
R–Q = The set of all irrational numbers
e.g. 2, 3, 5,....  e, log2 etc. are all irrational numbers.

METHODS TO WRITE A SET :

(i) Roster Method : In this method a set is described by listing elements, separated by commas and
enclose then by curly brackets
Ex. The set of vowels of English Alphabet may be described as {a, e, i, o, u}
(ii) Set Builder Form : In this case we write down a property or rule p Which gives us all the element
of the set
A = {x : P(x)}
Ex. A = {x : x N and x = 2n for n  N}
i.e. A = {2, 4, 6. …..}
Ex. B = {x2 : x  z}
i.e. B = {0, 1, 4, 9, ……}
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TYPES OF SETS :
Null set or Empty set : A set having no element in it is called an Empty set or a null set or a void set it
is denoted by  or { }
Ex. A = {x  N : 5 < x < 6} = 
A set consisting of at least one element is called a non-empty set or a non-void set.
Singleton : A set consisting of a single element is called a singleton set.
Ex. Then set {0}, is a singleton set
Finite Set. A set which has only finite number of elements is called a finite set.
Ex. A = {a, b, c}
Order of a finite set : The number of elements in a finite set A is called the order of the set A and is
denoted O(A) or n(A). It is also called cardinal number of the set.
Ex. A = {a, b, c, d}  n(A) = 4
Infinite set : A set which has an infinite number of elements is called an infinite set.
Ex. A = {1, 2, 3, 4, …..} is an infinite set
Equal sets : Two sets A and B are said to be equal if every element of A is a member of B, and every
element of B is a member of A.
If sets A and B are equal. We write A = B and A and B are not equal then A  B
Ex. A = {1, 2, 6, 7} and B = {6, 1, 2, 7}  A = B
Equivalent sets : Two finite sets A and B are equivalent if their number of elements are same i.e.
n(A) = n(B)
Ex. A = {1, 2, 3, 7,} B = {a, b, c, d}
n(A) = 4 and n(B) = 4  n(A) = n(B)
Note : Equal set always equivalent but equivalent sets may not be equal
Subsets : Let A and B be two sets if every element of A is an element of B, then A is called a subset of B
if A is a subset of B. we write A  B
Ex. A = {1, 2, 3, 4} and B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}  A  B
The symbol "" stands for "implies"
Proper subset : If A is a subset of B and A  B then A is a proper subset of B. and we write
A  B.
Note-1 : Every set is a subset of itself i.e. A  A for all A
Note-2 : Empty set  is a subset of every set
Note-3 : Clearly N  W  Z  Q  R  C
Note-4 : The total number of subsets of a finite set containing n elements is 2n
Universal set : A set consisting of all possible elements which occur in the discussion is called a
universal set and is denoted by U
Note : All sets are contained in the universal set
Ex. If A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {2, 4, 5, 6}, C = {1, 3, 5, 7}, then U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} can be taken as the
Universal set.
Power set : Let A be any set. The set of all subsets of A is called power set of A and is denoted by P(A)
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Ex. 1 Let A = {1, 2} then P(A) = { {1}, {2}, {1, 2}}
Ex. 2 Let P() = {}
 P(P()) = { {}}
 P(P(P()) = {    }
Note-1 : If A =  then P(A) has one element
Note–2 : Power set of a given set is always non empty
Some Operation on Sets :
(i) Union of two sets : A  B = {x : x  A or x  B}
e.g. A ={1, 2, 3}, B = {2, 3, 4} then A  B = {1, 2, 3, 4}
(ii) Intersection of two sets : A  B = {x : x  A and x  B}
e.g. A ={1, 2, 3}, B = {2, 3, 4} then A  B = { 2, 3}
(iii) Difference of two sets : A − B = {x : x  A and x  B}
e.g. A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {2, 3, 4} ; A − B = {1}
(iv) Complement of a set : A' = {x : x  A but x  U} = U – A
e.g. U = {1, 2, ….., 10}, A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} then A' = {6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
(v) De-Morgan Laws : (A  B)' = A'  B' ; (A  B)' = A'  B'
(vi) A – (B  C) = (A – B)  (A – C) ; A – (B  C) = (A – B)  (A – C)
(vii) Distributive Laws : A  (B  C) = (A  B)  (A  C); A  (B  C) = (A  B)  (A  C)
(viii) Commutative Laws : A  B = B  A ; A  B = B  A
(ix) Associative Laws : (A  B)  C = A  (B  C); (A  B)  C = A  (B  C)
(x) A=;AU=A
A=A;AU=U
(xi) A    ; A  B  B
(xii) A    ; B  A  B
(xiii) A      B = A
(xiv) A  B  A  B = B

Disjoint Sets :
If A  B = . then A, B are disjoint.
e.g. if A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {7, 8, 9} then A  B = 
Note: A, A' are disjoint if A  A' = 
Symmetric Difference of Sets :
A  B = (A – B)  (B – A)
• (A')' = A
• A  B  B'  A'
If A and B are any two sets, then
(i) A – B = A  B' (ii) B – A = B  A'
(iii) A – B = A  A  B =  (iv) (A – B)  B = A  B
(v) (A – B)  B = 
(vi) (A – B)  (B – A) = (A  B) – (A  B)

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Venn Diagrame :

Clearly (A – B)  (B – A)  (A  B) = A  B

Note : A  A' =  , A  A' = U

SOME IMPORTANT RESULTS ON NUMBER OF ELEMENTS IN SETS:
If A, B and C are finite sets, and U be the finite universal set, then
(i) n(A  B) = n(A) + n(B) – n(A  B)
(ii) n(A  B) = n(A) + n(B)  A, B are disjoint non-void sets.
(iii) n(A – B) = n(A) – n(A  B) i.e. n(A – B) + n(A  B) = n(A)
(iv) n(A  B) = No. of elements which belong to exactly one of A or B
= n((A – B)  (B – A))
= n(A – B) + n(B – A) [ (A – B) and (B – A) are disjoint]

= n(A) – n(A  B) + n(B) – n(A  B)

= n(A) + n(B) – 2n(A  B)
(v) n(A  B  C) = n(A) + n(B) + n(C) – n(A  B) – n(B  C) – n(A  C) + n (A  B  C)
(vi) Number of elements in exactly two of the sets A, B, C
= n(A  B) + n(B  C) + n(C  A) – 3n(A  B  C)
(vii) Number of elements in exactly one of the sets A, B, C
= n(A) + n(B) + n(C) –2n(A  B) –2n(B  C) –2n(A  C) + 3n(A  B  C)
(viii) n(A'  B') = n((A  B)') = n(U) – n(A  B)
(ix) n(A'  B') = n((A  B)') = n(U) – n(A  B)
Ex. In a group of 1000 people, there are 750 who can speak Hindi and 400 who can speak Bengali. How
many can speak Hindi only? How many can speak Bengali only? How many can speak both Hindi and
Bengali?
Sol. Let A and B be the sets of persons who can speak Hindi and Bengali respectively.
then n(A  B) = 1000, n(A) = 750, n(B) = 400.
Number of persons who can speak both Hindi and Bengali
= n(A  B) = n(A) + n(B) – n(A  B)
= 750 + 400 – 1000 = 150
Number of persons who can speak Hindi only
= n(A – B) = n(A) – n(A  B) = 750 – 150 = 600
Number of persons who can speak Bengali only
= n(B – A) = n(B) –n(A  B) = 400 – 150 = 250

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SOLVED EXAMPLES

Ex. 1 The set A = {x : x  R, x2 = 16 and 2x = 6} is equal to –

(1)  (2) {14, 3, 4} (3) {3} (4) {4}
Sol. (1)
x2 = 16  x = ±4
2x = 6  x = 3
There is no value of x which satisfies both the above equations.
Thus, A = 
Hence (1) is the correct answer

Ex.2 Let A = {x : x  R, |x| < 1}; B = {x : x  R, |x – 1|  1} and A  B = R – D, then the set D is-
(1) {x : 1 < x  2} (2) {x : 1  x < 2} (3) {x : 1  x  2} (4) none of these
Sol. (2)
A = {x : x  R, –1 < x < 1}
B = {x : x  R : x – 1  − or x −   }
= {x : x  R : x  0 or x  2}
 AB=R–D
where D = {x : x  R, 1  x < 2}
Thus (2) is the correct answer.

Ex.3 If aN = {ax : x  N}, then the set 6N  8N is equal to-

(1) 8N (2) 48N (3) 12N (4) 24N
Sol. (4)
6N = {6, 12, 18, 24, 30, …..}
8N = {8, 16, 24, 32…..}
 6N  8N = {24, 48, ……} = 24N
Short cut Method
6N  8N = 24N [24 is the L.C.M. of 6 and 8]

Ex.4 If P, Q and R subsets of a set A, then R×(P'  Q')' =

(1) (R×P)(R×Q) (2) (R×Q)(R×P) (3) (R×P)(R×Q) (4) none of these
Sol. (1, 2)
R×(P'Q')' = R×[(P')'(Q')'] = R×(PQ) = (R×P) (R×Q)
Hence (1), (2) is the correct answer.

Ex.5 If A = {x, y}, then the power set of A is-

(1) {xy, yx} (2) {, x, y} (3) {, {x}{2y}} (4) {, {x}, {y}, {x,y}}
Sol. (4)
Clearly P(A) = Power set of A
= set of all subsets of A
= {, {x}, {y}, {x, y}}
 (4) is the correct answer.

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Ex. 6 There are 200 students in a school. Out of these, 100 students play cricket, 50 students play hockey and
60 students play basketball. 30 students play both cricket and hockey, 35 students play both hockey and
basketball, and 45 students play both basketball and cricket.
(a) What is the maximum number of students who play at least one game?
(b) What is the maximum number of students who play all the three games?
(c) What is the minimum number of students playing at least one game?
(d) What is the minimum number of students who play all the three games?

Sol.

60

Consider the Venn diagram given above :

At first we will convert all the values in terms of x, which can be seen above.
Since the number of students can not be negative.
x – 15  0
 x – 20  0
So, iv. For the minimum number of students playing all three games, i.e., x = 20.
For maximum value of x, again none of the categories should have –ve number of students.
 30 – x  0
x  30
If x is more than 30, 30 – x would be – ve which is not possible.
Total number of students playing at least one game,
= 100 + x – 15 + 35 – x + x – 20
= 100 + x
So, the minimum number of students playing at least one game = 100 + 20 = 120
Hence, the maximum number of students playing at least one game = 100 + 30 = 130.

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EXERCISE # 1

1. If A and B are two sets, then A  (A  B)' is equal to-

(1) A (2) B (3)  (4) none of these

2. If A is any set, then-

(1) A  A' =  (2) A  A' = U (3) A  A' = U (4) none of these

3. Let U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, A = {1, 2, 5}, B = {6, 7} then A  B' is-

(1) B' (2) A (3) A' (4) B.

4. If A and B are two sets then A  B = A  B iff-

(1) A  B (2) B  A (3) A = B (4) none of these

5. Let A and B are two sets, in the universal set. Then A – B equals-
(1) A  B' (2) A'  B (3) A  B (4) none of these

6. Two sets A, B are disjoint iff-

(1) A  B =  (2) A  B   (3) A  B =  (4) none of these

7. If A  B, then A  B is equal to-

(1) A (2) B (3) A' (4) B'

8. If A and B are any two sets, then A  (A  B) is equal to-

(1) A (2) B (3) A' (4) B'

9. If A and B are not disjoint, then n(A  B ) is equal to-

(1) n(A) + n(B) (2) n(A) + n(B) – n(A  B)
(3) n(A) + n(B) + n(A  B) (4) n(A). n(B)

10. If A = {2, 4, 5} B = {7, 8, 9} then n(A×B) is equal to-

(1) 6 (2) 9 (3) 3 (4) 0

11. Let A and B be two sets such that n(A) = 70, n(B) = 60 and n(A  B) = 110. Then n(A  B) is equal to–
(1) 240 (2) 20 (3) 100 (4) 120

12. Which set is the subset of all given sets?

(1) {1, 2, 3, 4, ….} (2) {1} (3) {0} (4) {}

 1 
13. If Q = x : x = , where y  N , then-
 y 
2
(1) 0  Q (2) 1  Q (3) 2  Q (4) Q
3

14. A = {x : x  x} represents-
(1) {0} (2) {} (3) {1} (4) {x}
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15. Which of the following statements is true ?

(1) 3  {1, 3, 5} (2) 3  {1, 3, 5} (3) {3}  {1, 3, 5} (4) {3, 5}  {1, 3, 5}

16. Which of the following is a null set?

(1) A = {x : x > 1 and x < 1} (2) B = {x : x + 3 = 3}
(3) C = {} (4) D = {x : x  1 and x  1}

17. P(A) = P(B) 

(1) A  B (2) B  A (3) A = B (4) none of these

18. In a recent survey (conducted by HLL) of 1,000 houses, washing machine, vacuum cleaners and
refrigerators were counted. Each house had at least one of these products. 400 had no refrigerators, 380
had no vacuum cleaners, 542 had no washing machines. 294 had both a vacuum cleaner and washing
machines, 277 had both a vacuum cleaner and a refrigerator, and 120 had both a refrigerator and a
washing machine. How many had only a vacuum cleaner ?
(1) 132 (2) 234 (3) 342 (4) 62

19. From 50 students taking examinations in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 37 passed, Mathematics,
24 Physics and 43 Chemistry. At most 19 passed Mathematics and Physics, at most 29 passed
Mathematics and Chemistry and at most 20 passed Physics and Chemistry. The largest possible number
that could have passed all three examination is-
(1) 11 (2) 12 (3) 13 (4) 14

20. Let Z be the set of all integers and A = {(a, b) : a2 + 3b2 = 28, a, b  Z} and B = {(a, b) : a > b, a, b  Z}.
Then the number of elements in A  B, is-
(1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 6 (4) 5

21. In a class of 25 students, at least one of mathematics or statistics is taken by everybody. 12 have taken
mathematics, 8 have taken mathematics but not statistics. Find the difference in the number of students
who have taken mathematics and statistics and those who have taken statistics but not maths?
(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 18 (4) 8

22. In a class of 200 students, 70 played cricket, 60 played hockey and 80 played football. 30 played cricket
and football, 30 played hockey and football, 40 played cricket and hockey.
Find the maximum number of people playing all the three games and also the minimum number of
people playing at least one game ?
(1) 200, 100 (2) 30, 110 (3) 30, 120 (4) None of these

23. If class with n students is organized into four groups keeping the following conditions :
Each student belongs to exactly two groups and Each pair of groups has exactly one student in common.
What is the value of n ?
(1) n = 11 (2) n = 7 (3) n = 9 (4) n = 6

24. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, then the number of subsets of set A containing element 3, is-
(1) 24 (2) 28 (3) 8 (4) 16

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JEE MAINS PYQ

1. Sets A and B have 3 and 6 elements respectively. What can be the minimum number elements in A  B ?
[Roorkee 1991]
(1) 3 (2) 6 (3) 9 (4) 18

2. In a college of 300 students, every students reads 5 newspapers and every newspaper is read by 60
students. The number of newspapers is- [IIT-1998]
(1) at least 30 (2) at most 20 (3) exactly 25 (4) none of these

3. The shaded region in the given figure is-

(1) A  (B  C) (2) A  (B  C) (3) A  (B – C) (4) A – (B  C)

4. Let n(U) = 700, n(A) = 200, n(B) = 300 and n(A  B) = 100, then n(A'  B') =
(1) 400 (2) 600 (3) 300 (4) 200

5. If A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, then the number of proper subsets of A is -

(1) 120 (2) 30 (3) 31 (4) 32

6. If A = {x : x2 – 5x + 6 = 0}, B = {2, 4}, C = {4, 5}, then A × (B  C) is- [Kerala P.E.T. 2002]
(1) {(2, 4) (3, 4)} (2) {(4, 2) (4, 3)}
(3) {(2, 4) (3, 4) (4, 4)} (4) {(2, 2) (3, 3) (4, 4), (5, 5)}

7. If A = {(x, y) : x2 + y2 = 25} and B = {(x, y) : x2 + 9y2 = 144} then A  B contains-

(1) one point (2) three points (3) two points (4) four points

8. A class has 175 students. The following data shows the number of students obtaining one or more
subjects. Mathematics 100; Physics 70; Chemistry 40; Mathematics and Physics 30; Mathematics and
Chemistry 28; Physics and Chemistry 23; Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 18. How many students
have offered Mathematics alone ?
(1) 35 (2) 48 (3) 60 (4) 22

9. If A, B and C are three sets such that A  B = A  C and A  B = A  C, then :-

(1) B = C (2) A  B =  (3) A = B (4) A = C [AIEEE-2009]

10. Let X = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. The number of different ordered pair (Y, Z) that can be formed such that Y  X,
Z  X and Y  Z is empty is [AIEEE-2012]
5 3 2 5
(1) 2 (2) 5 (3) 5 (4) 3

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11. Two sets A and B are as under :

A = {(a, b) R × R : |a – 5| < 1 and |b – 5| < 1};
B = {(a, b) R × R : 4(a – 6)2 + 9 (b – 5)2 < 36}. Then : [JEE(Main)-2018]
(1) neither A  B nor B  A (2) B  A
(3) A  B (4) A  B =  (an empty set)

12. Let S = {x  R : x  0 and 2 | x − 3| + x( x − 6) + 6 = 0 }. Then S [JEE(Main)-2018]

(1) contains exactly four elements (2) is an empty set.
(3) contains exactly one element. (4) contains exactly two elements.

13. In a class of 140 students numbered 1 to 140, all even numbered students opted Mathematics, course,
those whose number is divisible by 3 opted Physics course and those whose number is divisible by 5
opted Chemistry course. Then the number of students who did not opt for any of the three courses is:
[JEE Mains Online-2019]
(1) 42 (2) 1 (3) 102 (4) 38

14. Let S = {1, 2,3 …….., 100}. The number of non–empty subsets A of S such that the product of elements
in A is even is : [JEE Mains Online-2019]
(1) 250 + 1 (2) 250 (250–1) (3) 250 –1 (4) 2100 –1

(x +2)(x 2 −5x +6)

15. Let Z be the set of integers. If A = {x  Z : 2 = 1} B : {x Z : – 3 < 2x – 1 < 9}, then the
number of subsets of the set A × B, is: [JEE Mains Online-2019]
10 15 18
(1) 2 (2) 2 (3) 2 (4) 212

16. Two newspapers A and B are published in a city. It is known that 25% of the city population reads A and
20% reads B while 8% reads both A and B. Further, 30% of those who read A but not B look into
advertisements and 40% of those who read B but not A also look into advertisements, while 50% of those
who read both A and B look into advertisements. then the percentage of the population who look into
advertisements is : [JEE Mains Online-2019]
(1) 13.5 (2) 13.9 (3) 12.8 (4) 13

17. Let A, B and C be sets such that     C . Then which of the following statements is not true?
[JEE Mains Online-2019]
(1) If (A – C)  B, then A  B (2) (C  A)  (C  B) = C
(3) B  C   (4) If (A – B)  C, then A  C

18. Let S1 ,S2 and S3 be three sets defined as Then the set S1  S2  S3 [JEE Mains Online-2021]
S1 = {z  C:| z − 1| 2}
S2 = {z C: Re((1 − i)z)  1}
S3 = {z C: Im(z)  1}
(1) is a singleton (2) has exactly two elements
(3) has infinitely many elements (4) has exactly three elements

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19. In a school, there are three types of games to be played. Some of the students play two types of games,
but none play all the three games. Which Venn diagrams can justify the above statement?
[JEE Mains Online-2021]

(1) P and Q (2) P and R (3) None of these (4) Q and R

20. 
Let A = ( x, y)  R  R∣ 2x2 + 2y2 − 2x − 2y = 1 , 

B = ( x, y)  R  R∣ 4x2 + 4y2 −16y + 7 = 0 and 
C = ( x, y)  R  R∣ x 2

+ y2 − 4x − 2y + 5  r 2 .
Then the minimum value of r such that A  B  C is equal to [JEE Mains Online-2021]
3 + 10 2 + 10 3+ 2 5
(1) (2) (3) (4) 1 + 5
2 2 2

21. Out of all the patients in a hospital 89% are found to be suffering from heart ailment and 98% are
suffering from lungs infection. If K% of them are suffering from both ailments, then K can not belong to
the set : [JEE Mains Online-2021]
(1) {80, 83, 86, 89} (2) {84, 86, 88, 90} (3) {79, 81, 83, 85} (4) {84, 87, 90, 93}

22. Let A = {n  N : n is a 3-digit number }

B = {9k + 2: k  N}
and C = {9k + 1: k  N} for some I(0  1  9)
If the sum of all the elements of the set A  (B  C) is 274  400 , then I is equal to
[JEE Mains Online-2021]

23. The number of elements in the set {n {1,2,3,.,100}∣ (11)n  (10)n + (9)n is 
[JEE Mains Online-2021]

24. Let A = {n  N | n2  n + 10,000}, B = {3k +1 | k  N} and C = {2k | k  N}, then the sum of all the
elements of the set A  (B – C) is equal to_______ . [JEE Mains Online-2021]

25. Let S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9}. Then the number of elements in the set T = {A  S: A   and the sum of all
the elements of A is not a multiple of 3} is_________. [JEE Mains Online-2021]

26.  
If A = {x  R :| x − 2 | 1},B = x  R : x 2 − 3  1 , C = {x  R :| x − 4 | 2} and Z is the set of all integers,

then the number of subsets of the set (A  B  C)C  Z is______. [JEE Mains Online-2021]

27. Let A = {x  R :| x + 1| 2} and B = {x  R :| x − 1| 2} . Then which one of the following statements is
NOT true? [JEE Mains Online-2022]
(1) A − B = (−1,1) (2) B − A = R − (−3,1) (3) A  B = (−3, −1] (4) A  B = R − [1,3)

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 | x + 3| −1 
28. Let S = x [−6,3] − {−2,2}:
 | x | −2 

 0 and T = x  Z: x2 − 7 | x | +9  0 .
Then the number of elements in S  T is [JEE Mains Online-2022]
(1) 7 (2) 5 (3) 4 (4) 3

 −1 a  
29. Let S =  
 0 b  
 
;a,b {1,2,3,100} and let Tn = A S: An(n +1) = I . Then the number of elements in

100
Tn is [JEE Mains Online-2022]
n =1

30. Let A = {n  N : H.C.F. (n,45) = 1} and Let B = {2k : k {1,2,,100}} . Then the sum of all the
elements of A  B is [JEE Mains Online-2022]

31. Let A :{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} . Define B = {T  A : either 1 T or 2  T} and C = T  A: T the sum of all the
elements of T is a prime number } . Then the number of elements in the set B  C is
[JEE Mains Online-2022]

32. Let A = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7} and B = {3,6,7,9} . Then the number of elements in the set {C  A : C  B  }
is [JEE Mains Online-2022]

33. Let S = {4,6,9} and T = {9,10,11,,1000} . If A = a1 + a 2 ++ a k : k  N,a1 ,a 2 ,a 3 ,,a k  S then the
sum of all the elements in the set T − A is equal to [JEE Mains Online-2022]

34.    
Let S = (x, y)  N  N:9(x − 3)2 + 16(y − 4)2  144 and T = (x, y)  R  R : (x − 7)2 + (y − 4)2  36 .

The n(S  T) is equal to [JEE Mains Online-2022]

35. An organization awarded 48 medals in event ‘A’, 25 in event ‘B’ and 18 in event ‘C’. If these medals
went to total 60 men and only five men got medals in all the three events, then, how many received
medals in exactly two of three events? [JEE Mains Online-2023]
(1) 10 (2) 9 (3) 21 (4) 15

36. The number of 3digit numbers, that are divisible by either 3 or 4 but not divisible by 48, is
[JEE Mains Online-2023]
(1) 472 (2) 432 (3) 507 (4) 400

37. Let  be the sample space and A   be an event. Given below are two statements:
(S1): If P(A) = 0, then A = 
(S2): If P(A) = 1, then A = 
Then [JEE Mains Online-2023]
(1) Only (S1) is true (2) Only (S2) is true
(3) Both (S1) and (S2) are true (4) Both (S1) and (S2) are false

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38. In a group of 100 persons 75 speak English and 40 speak Hindi. Each person speaks at least one of the
two languages. If the number of persons, who speak only English is  and the number of persons who
speak only Hindi is , then the eccentricity of the ellipse 25(2 x 2 + 2 y2 ) = 22 is
[JEE Mains Online-2023]
3 15 117 119 129
(1) (2) (3) (4)
12 12 12 12

39. The number of elements in the set {n N: 10  100} and 3n – 3 is a multiple of 7} is
[JEE Mains Online-2023]

40. The number of elements in the set {n  Z: |n2 – 10 n + 19| < 6} [JEE Mains Online-2023]

41. Let A and B be two finite sets with m and n elements respectively. The total number of subsets of the set
A is 56 more than the total number of subsets of B. Then the distance of the point P(m, n) from the point
Q(–2,–3) is : [JEE Mains Online-2024]
(1) 4 (2) 10 (3) 8 (4) 6

42. A group of 40 students appeared in an examination of 3 subjects - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
It was found that all students passed in atleast one of the subjects, 20 students passed in Mathematics, 25
students passed in Physics, 16 students passed in Chemistry, atmost 11 students passed in both
Mathematics and Physics, atmost 15 students passed in both Physics and Chemistry, atmost 15 students
passed in both Mathematics and Chemistry. The maximum number of students passed in all the three
subjects is ________. [JEE Mains Online-2024]

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ISI PYQ

1. Let S = {x  R| 1  |x|  100} be a subset of the real line. Let M be a non-empty subset of S such that for
all x, y in M, their product xy is also in M. Then M can have [ISI – 2007]
(A) only one element
(B) at most 2 elements
(C) more than 2 but only finitely many elements
(D) infinitely many elements

2. Let X be the set {1, 2, 3, …., 10} and P the subset {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. The number of subsets Q of X such that
P  Q = 3 is [ISI – 2008]

(A) 1 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 29

3. A collection of geometric figures is said to satisfy Helly property if the following condition holds:
for any choice of three figures A, B, C from the collection satisfying A  B  ,B  C   and
C  A   , one must have A  B  C   .
Which of the following collections satisfy Helly property? [ISI – 2009]
(A) A set of circles
(B) A set of hexagons
(C) A set of squares with sides parallel to the axes
(D) A set of horizontal line segments

4. If at least 90 per cent students in a class are good in sports, and at least 80 per cent are good in music and
at least 70 per cent are good in studies, then the percentage of students who are good in all three is at least
[ISI – 2009]
(A) 25 (B) 40 (C) 20 (D) 50

5. Let A be the set {1, 2, …,6}. How many functions f from A to A are there such that the range of f has
exactly 5 elements? [ISI – 2011]
(A) 240 (B) 720 (C) 1800 (D) 10800

6. Consider the sets defined by the inequalities

A = {(x, y)  R2 : x4 + y2  1},
B = {(x, y)  R2 : x6 + y4  1}
Then [ISI – 2012]
(A) B  A
(B) A  B
(C) each of the sets A – B, B – A and A  B is non-empty
(D) none of the above is true
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7. Let A0 =  (the empty set). For each i = 1, 2, 3, …, define the set Ai = Ai −1  Ai −1 . The set A3 is
[ISI – 2014]
(A)  (B)  (C) , (D) ,,,
8. For a set X, let P(X) denote the set of all subsets of X. Consider the following statements.
(I) P(A)  P(B) = P(A  B)
(II) P(A)  P(B) = P(A  B)
(III) P(A) = P(B)  A = B
(IV) P ( ) = 
Then [ISI – 2016]
(A) All the statements are true
(B) (I), (II), (III) are true and (IV) is false
(C) (I), (III) are true and (II), (IV) are false
(D) (II), (III), (IV) are true and (I) is false

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Answer Key

EXERCISE # 1

1. (3) 2. (2) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (3) 7. (1)

8. (1) 9. (2) 10. (2) 11. (2) 12. (4) 13. (2) 14. (2)
15. (2) 16. (1) 17. (3) 18. (4) 19. (4) 20. (3) 21. (1)
22. (3) 23. (4) 24. (3)

JEE MAINS PYQ

1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (4) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (1) 7. (4)

8. (3) 9. (1) 10. (4) 11. (3) 12. (4) 13. (4) 14. (2)
15. (2) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (3) 20. (3) 21. (3)
22. (5) 23. (96) 24. (832) 25. (80) 26. (256) 27. (2) 28. (4)
29. (100) 30. (5264) 31. (107) 32. (112) 33. (11) 34. (27) 35. (3)
36. (2) 37. (3) 38. (3) 39. (15) 40. (6) 41. (2) 42. (11)

ISI PYQ

1. (B) 2. (C) 3. (C, D) 4. (B) 5. (D) 6. (B) 7. (D)

8. (C)

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