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A ⊆ B means: A is an element of B B is a subset of A B is an element of B A is a subset of B A is a subset of B and B is a subset of A

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A is a subset of B

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The symbol
\subset stands for subset. So,
A \subset B means that A is a subset of B.

This means that every element in A is also an element of B, while the opposite is not necessarily true: there can be elements of B that are not elements of A.

For example, if you consider the sets


A = \{ \text{US Capitals} \},\ \ B = \{ \text{US Cities} \}

You can see that A is a subset of B: every Capitol is a city, but most cities aren't capitols.

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