Sure! Here are some challenging questions regarding the number of subsets in a set, along with their answers:
Question 1:
How many subsets can be formed from a set containing 10 distinct elements?
Answer 1:
A set with \( n \) distinct elements has \( 2^n \) subsets. Therefore, for a set with 10 elements: \[ 2^{10} = 1024 \] So, the number of subsets is 1024.
Question 2:
If a set contains 6 unique integers, how many subsets can be generated if we are restricted to use only subsets that have an even number of elements?
Answer 2:
First, we calculate the total number of subsets of the set with 6 elements: \[ 2^6 = 64 \] Half of these will have even numbers of elements. The even-sized subsets for a set of size \( n \) can be calculated as: \[ \text{Total subsets} = 2^n \] \[ \text{Subsets with an even number of elements} = \frac{2^n}{2} = 2^{n-1} \]
For \( n = 6 \): \[ 2^{6-1} = 2^5 = 32 \] So, the number of subsets with an even number of elements is 32.
Question 3:
What is the number of subsets of the set {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h} that contain the element 'a'?
Answer 3:
To determine the number of subsets that contain the element 'a', we can fix 'a' as part of the subset and consider the remaining elements. The remaining elements are {b, c, d, e, f, g, h}, which have 7 elements.
The number of subsets that can be formed from these 7 elements (with 'a' included) is: \[ 2^7 = 128 \] So, the number of subsets that contain the element 'a' is 128.
Question 4:
If a set has 8 elements, how many subsets exist that have at least 2 elements?
Answer 4:
The total number of subsets for a set of 8 elements is: \[ 2^8 = 256 \] To find the number of subsets with at least 2 elements, we need to subtract the subsets with 0 elements (1 subset) and subsets with 1 element (8 subsets). \[ \text{Subsets with at least 2 elements} = 256 - (1 + 8) = 256 - 9 = 247 \] So, the number of subsets with at least 2 elements is 247.
Question 5:
Consider a set with 12 elements. How many subsets can be formed that have a size greater than 6?
Answer 5:
The total number of subsets is \( 2^{12} = 4096 \).
To find the number of subsets with size greater than 6, we subtract the subsets of size 0 through 6 from the total.
Using the binomial coefficient, the subsets of size \( k \) can be calculated as: \[ \sum_{k=0}^{6} \binom{12}{k} \]
Calculating these values:
- \(\binom{12}{0} = 1\)
- \(\binom{12}{1} = 12\)
- \(\binom{12}{2} = 66\)
- \(\binom{12}{3} = 220\)
- \(\binom{12}{4} = 495\)
- \(\binom{12}{5} = 792\)
- \(\binom{12}{6} = 924\)
Adding these up: \[ 1 + 12 + 66 + 220 + 495 + 792 + 924 = 2510 \]
Now, subtracting from the total: \[ 4096 - 2510 = 1586 \] So, the number of subsets with size greater than 6 is 1586.
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