Relations and Functions Exercise 2
Question:
Determine the domain and range of the relation R defined by R={(x,x+5):x∈{0,1,2,3,4,5}}
Answer:
Domain: {0,1,2,3,4,5} Range: {5,6,7,8,9,10}
Question:
Let A={x,y,z} and B={1,2}. Find the number of relations from A to B.
Answer:
Answer: The number of relations from A to B is 8.
Explanation: A relation from A to B is a set of ordered pairs (x,y) where x is an element of A and y is an element of B.
There are 3 elements in A (x,y,z) and 2 elements in B (1,2).
Therefore, there are 3 possible elements of A that can be paired with each element of B.
This means that there are 3x2 = 6 possible ordered pairs.
However, since each ordered pair can be reversed (e.g. (x,2) can also be written as (2,x)), the total number of relations from A to B is doubled, giving us 8 relations.
Question:
A={1,2,3,5} and B={4,6,9}. Define a relation R from A to B by R={(x,y): the difference between x and y is odd x∈A,y∈B}. Write R in roster form
Answer:
R={(1,4), (2,6), (3,9), (5,4), (5,6), (5,9)}
Question:
Let A={1,2,3,….,14}. Define a relation R from A to A by R={(x,y):3x−y=0 where x,y∈A}. Write down its domain, co-domain and range.
Answer:
Domain: A = {1,2,3,….,14}
Co-domain: A = {1,2,3,….,14}
Range: {3, 6, 9, 12, 15}
Question:
Let A={1,2,3,4,6} and R be the relation on A defined by {(a,b):a,b∈A ,b is exactly divisible by a} (i) Write R in roster form (ii) Find the domain of R (iii) Find the range of R
Answer:
(i) R = {(1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,6), (2,2), (2,4), (2,6), (3,3), (3,6), (4,4), (4,6)}
(ii) Domain of R = {1,2,3,4,6}
(iii) Range of R = {1,2,3,4,6}
Question:
Write the relation R={(x,x3):x is a prime number less than 10} in roster form
Answer:
R = {(2,8), (3,27), (5,125), (7,343)}
Question:
Let R be the relation on Z defined by R={(a,b):a,b∈Z,a−b is an integer}. Find the domain and range of R.
Answer:
Domain: Z Range: Z
Question:
Define a relation R on the set N of natural numbers by R={(x,y):y=x+5, x is a natural number less than 4,x,y∈N}. Depict this relationship using (i) roster form (ii) an arrow diagram. Write down the domain and range or R.
Answer:
Roster Form: {(0,5), (1,6), (2,7), (3,8)}
Arrow Diagram:
0 → 5 1 → 6 2 → 7 3 → 8
Domain of R: {0, 1, 2, 3} Range of R: {5, 6, 7, 8}