Question

Problem:A stock broker that classifies her clients by sex, marital status, and employment status. Let the universal set be the set of all clients, M Be the set of male clients, S be the set of single clients, and E be the set of employed clients. Describe the following sets in words.

55. MnE 56. M’U S

Answer 1

55) M n E

There are two possible descriptions i.e.

M and not E = This implies the male clients which are not employed.

The other meaning possible will be

M and E = This implies the mail clients which are employed

56) M' U S

M' represents all the female clients

S represents the set of single person

Hence, the union of M' U S (This will represents all the female employees and the mail employees which are single).

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