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QJEEM22Ma44d9: JEE Main 2022 Mathematics - Class 11 JEEM22Ma44d9 Solution: Let A = { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 } . Define B = { T ⊆ A :…

Let A={1,2,3,4,5,6,7}. Define B={T⊆A : either 1∉T or 2∈T} and C={T⊆A:T the sum of all the elements of T is a prime number }. Then the number of elements in the set B∪C is ________________.

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∵ (B∪C)′=B′∩C′

B' is a set containing sub sets of A containing element 1 and not containing 2.

And C' is a set containing subsets of A whose sum of elements is not prime.

So, we need to calculate number of subsets of {3, 4, 5, 6, 7} whose sum of elements plus 1 is composite.

Number of such 5 elements subset = 1

Number of such 4 elements subset = 3 (except selecting 3 or 7)

Number of such 3 elements subset = 6 (except selecting {3, 4, 5}, {3, 6, 7}, {4, 5, 7} or {5, 6, 7})

Number of such 2 elements subset = 7 (except selecting {3, 7}, {4, 6}, {5, 7})

Number of such 1 elements subset = 3 (except selecting {4} or {6})

Number of such 0 elements subset = 1

n(B′∩C′)=21⇒n(B∪C)=27−21=107

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