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CLEP COLLEGE MATHE MATICS EXAM PREP
(STUDY GUIDE WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS|
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What is an Equivalent Set?
Answer: Equivalent Set sets that have different elements but
have the same amount of elements
What is a Proper Set?
Answer: Proper Set ⊂
What is an Intersect?
Answer: Intersect ∩
What is a Disjoint Set?
Answer: Disjoint Set a set with no elements in common
What is an Empty Set?
Answer: Empty Set ∅
What is a Universal Set?
Answer: Universal Set the set containing all objects or elements
and of which all other sets are subsets
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What is a Union?
Answer: Union ∪
What is a Set Complement?
Answer: Set Complement A'
What is the definition of a Set Complement?
Answer: Set Complement Given set A, the set of all elements in
the universal set that are not in A
What is the repeated definition of an Empty Set?
Answer: Empty Set a set having no elements
What is the definition of a Union?
Answer: Union in sets A and B, the set of elements, which are in
A or in B or in both
What is a Proper Subset?
Answer: Proper Subset in set A, a subset of A that is not equal
to A
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What is an Intersecting Set?
Answer: intersecting set set that contains all elements of A that
also belong to B
What is the set notation for "the set of all x's, such that x is greater than 0"?
Answer: Set notation (the set of all x's, such that x is greater
than 0") { q | q > 0 } or { x : x > 0 }
What are Real Numbers?
Answer: real numbers All numbers on a number line (positives,
negatives, square roots, π....)
What is the Commutative Property?
Answer: Communicative property 2+3=3+2 2x3=3x2
What is the Associative Property?
Answer: Associative Property 2+(3+4)=(2+3)+4
What is the Distributive Property?
Answer: Distributive property 2x(3+4)=(2x3)+(2x4)
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What is the Identity Property?
Answer: Identity property 3+0=3 3x1=3
What is the Additive Inverse?
Answer: Additive Inverse 3+(-3)=0
What is the Multiplicative Inverse?
Answer: Multiplicative Inverse 3x (1/3)=1
What are Natural Numbers?
Answer: Natural numbers 1,2,3,4,5....
What are Whole Numbers?
Answer: Whole Numbers 0,1,2,3,4....
What are Integers?
Answer: Integers ...-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3...
What are Irrational Numbers?Answer: Irrational numbers ex: π, √2 (non-terminating numbers)