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Respected sir, what is the difference between proper subset and non-empty proper subset , how many elements are in proper subset and non -empty proper subset respectively.
Posted by Manoj Mishra 8 years, 11 months ago
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Naveen Sharma 8 years, 11 months ago
If A and B are two sets, then A is called the proper subset of B if A ⊆ B but B ⊇ A i.e., A ≠ B. The symbol ‘⊂’ is used to denote proper subset. Symbolically, we write A ⊂ B.
E.g
A = {1, 2, 3, 4}
Here n(A) = 4
B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
Here n(B) = 5
We observe that, all the elements of A are present in B but the element ‘5’ of B is not present in A.
So, we say that A is a proper subset of B.
Symbolically, we write it as A ⊂ B
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Manish Gandhi 8 years, 11 months ago
Proper Subset is a subset of the set which is having the elemnts from the Main set but not all. It is 2n - 1 in numbers.
Non Empty Proper subsets are all the subsets excluding the "Empty Subset" i.e. { }. It is 2n - 2 in numbers.
For e.g. If A = {1,2} then the number of subsets it has is 2n where n represents the no. of elements in that set means A will have 22 = 4 subsets which are {1}, {2}, {1,2} & { } sets.
Now, here {1}, {2} & { } are the proper subsets & {1}, {2} are the non empty proper subsets.
Hope it clears better.
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