There are 2^4 or 16 of them since there are 4 elements. {} The empty set, has 0 elements {11} {12} These 4 have just 1 element, they are called "singletons" {13} (14) {11,12} {11,13} {11,14} These 6 have 2 elements {12,13} {12,14} {13,14} {11,12,13} {11,12,14} These 4 have 3 elements {11,13,14} {12,13,14} {11,12,13,14} This 1 has all four elements. It is not considered a PROPER subset, since it is the WHOLE, not really deserving of the prefix "sub" but it is considered a subset anyway. Edwin