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Mathematics quiz based on definition of terms
Instruction: Supply the correct answers to fill in the gaps provided.
Set theory
1. Any clearly defined collection of things, objects or numbers constitutes a _____.
When there is no limit to the number of elements in a set it is said to be ______.
Given two set A and B, if the set A contains some or all elements of B, then A is said to be a _____ of B. It can also be said that B is a _____ set of A.
If a set A is a superset of B and there is at least one element in the set B which is not in A, then the set A is a ________ of B
If A is a subset of B and B is also a subset of A then A and B are_______
Given that A is a subset of a universal set, the elements of the universal set which are not in the set A is a set called ______
The number of elements in a set is the _____ of that set.
Given two sets A and B, the set which contains elements that are in A as well as in B is the _______ of the set
The ___________ of a set A and B is the set which consists of elements that are either in A or B or in both A and B.
Two sets which do not have any common elements are best described as_____.
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Mathematics quiz continued
Topic: Binary operation
A binary operation is usually denoted by an asterisk, *. A non-empty set S is said to be closed under a binary operation * if all a, b are ____.
A binary operation is any rule of combination of any two elements of a given non-empty set. The four most familiar examples of binary operations are those of __, __, __ and ____.
Given a non-empty set, S which is closed under a binary operation *, if for all a, b element of S a*b=b*a then the binary operation is said to be____.
How many binary operations on a non-empty set S does the distributive property have?
A unique element exist in a given set with the property that when it combine with another element in the set, leaves it unchanged. The element is called _______
Corresponding to any element ‘a’ in a given set, there is a unique element a^-1 with the property that a.a^-1= 1. This unique element is called the _____
As traffic rule is to driving so is so is _______ to mathematics and sciences..
_____ was the first to demonstrate that the combinations of elements can be tabulated under some prescribed operation.
An element a combines with another element b under the operation * and gives a. the element b is described as a/an_____.
In general subtraction and division over the set R of real numbers are not ____ but addition and multiplication are.

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