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Find the number of subsets and the number of proper subsets of the following sets.(i) W = {red,blue, yellow}(ii) X = {x2 : x ∈ N, x2 ≤ 100}.

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(i) Given W = {red, blue, yellow}

Then n(W) = 3

The number of subsets = n[P(W)] = 23 = 8

The number of proper subsets = n[P(W)] – 1 = 23 – 1 = 8 – 1 

= 7

(ii) Given X = {1,2,3, }

X2 = {1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100}

n(X) = 10

The Number of subsets = n[P(X)] = 210 = 1024

The Number of proper subsets = n[P(X)] – 1 = 210 – 1 = 1024 – 1 

= 1023.



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