SOLUTION: Without writing them down, what are the number of subsets of the set A = {a, b, c, d, e}? Of set B = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i}? I am sinking, can someone please help me with this

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Question 191648: Without writing them down, what are the number of subsets of the set A = {a, b, c, d, e}? Of set B = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i}? I am sinking, can someone please help me with this question?
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Without writing them down, what are the number of subsets of the set A = {a, b, c, d, e}? Of set B = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i}? I am sinking, can someone please help me with this question?
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Since every element in A is either in or out of the subset
there are 2^5 = 32 subsets of A.
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There are 2^9 = 512 subsets of B
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Cheers,
Stan H.