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GATE 2015 CS (CS2) – Question 12

Engineering Mathematics · Discrete Mathematics: Sets, Relations, Functions, Partial Orders and Lattices · 1 mark · Numerical answer

Find the cardinality of the power set of {0,1,2,…,10}.

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Correct answer: 2048

Explanation

The underlying set has eleven elements, including both endpoints zero and ten. Each element can independently be included or excluded from a subset, giving 2¹¹=2048 subsets. Thus the power-set cardinality is 2048.

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