Question

Given sample set A= {1,2,3,4,5} how many items are in the complement of set B if set B= all numbers greater than 2? OPTIONS : 3 , 5, 2 , or 4
Just stuck on this one question.

Answer 1

Answer:

2

Step-by-step explanation:

It sounds like we are pretending A is the universe.  The only numbers in our world are 1,2,3,4, and 5.

You are given B is all numbers greater than 2.

The complement of B would all the elements not listed in B.

The elements in B are 3,4, and 5, since we are looking for numbers greater than 2 in our world of numbers above.

The elements not in B are 1 and 2.

So B complement is {1,2}.

There are 2 elements in our set for B complement. The elements that were counted were just the element 1 and the element 2.