2 votes 2 votes Determine the cardinality of the following set: $$\{x \mid x\text{ is an integer and } 1/8 < x < 17/2\}$$ Set Theory & Algebra set-theory&algebra set-theory + – gate#2016 asked Jul 28, 2015 • retagged Dec 19, 2015 by Arjun gate#2016 906 views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 10 votes 10 votes Smallest value of $x$ $= \lceil \frac{1}{8} \rceil = 1$ Largest value of $x$ $ = \lfloor \frac{17}{2} \rfloor = 8$ Thus 8 integer values- $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8\}$. Arjun answered Jul 28, 2015 • selected Nov 11, 2015 by Arjun Arjun comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments See all 4 4 Comments reply gate#2016 commented Jul 28, 2015 reply Follow Share I am still confused regarding the answer being 8 values. Can you please explain in detail? 0 votes 0 votes Arjun commented Jul 28, 2015 reply Follow Share What's the confusion? 0 votes 0 votes dhairya commented Jun 17, 2016 reply Follow Share why we have taken 1..in case if 0.125..?? why not 0 0 votes 0 votes akash.dinkar12 commented Jul 25, 2018 i edited by akash.dinkar12 Aug 25, 2018 reply Follow Share dhairya Be with the basics, just see what is given in the question, we have to take x as integer and that value of x must be greater than 1/8(0.125) and less than 17/2(8.5).So there are 8 integers exist between that range {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} . we can not take 0 because the value has to be greater than 0.125 at least. 2 votes 2 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
3 votes 3 votes x value is between 1/8 to 17/2 ie. 0.125<x<8.5. and x is an integer so between 0.125 to 8.5 there are 8 integers {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} so x can be any of these. so cardinality of the set is 8 Murali answered Oct 20, 2015 Murali comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.