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Question: What is Set ?

Answer:

A set is a collection of objects, called the members or elements of the set. To show that the objects belong to a set they are put between curly brackets { }.

For example, the set of prime numbers less than 12 is given as {2,3,5,7,11}, while the set of months whose names begin with J is given as {January, June, July}.

Sets are often labeled with a single letter, for example
F = {multiple of 5}.

The symbol ∈ is used to show that an object is a member of a set, and ∉ to show that it is not. For example,
20 ∈ F but 21 ∉ F

When the elements of a set A are all members of a set B then A is called a subset of B, written A ⊂ B