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Let A = {6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} and B = {8, 10, 12, 14, 16). Find the space A OR B

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Answer: {6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16}

Step-by-step explanation:

Start by writing out set A = {6,7,8,9,10,11,12}

Then introduce items from set B that aren't already in set A. So you'll introduce 14 and 16 to get the answer shown above. The answer represents all the numbers that are in set A or set B or in both sets.

A slightly similar approach is to write all of the given numbers in one big set like so

{6,7,8,9,10,11,12, 8,10,12,14,16}

then we erase the duplicates 8,10,12 to get the answer above.

When dealing with sets, we only have one unique item at a time.

We can replace the "OR" in "A OR B" with the union symbol. So we could write A U B

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