document.write( "Question 1186668: If p={1,2,3.4},Write down all the subsets of p which have exactly two element \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #817621 by greenestamps(13203)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "You need to choose 2 of the 4 elements; the number of ways you can do that is \"4 choose 2\" = C(4,2) = 6. \n" ); document.write( "You can make the list; it should have 6 different subsets. \n" ); document.write( "To make sure you don't count any subset twice, make sure each subset you write has the smaller of the two elements first -- that is, for example, you don't want to have two different subsets {2,4} and {4,2}, because those are the same. \n" ); document.write( "Or of course you could make sure that in each subset you list the larger of the two numbers is first.... \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |