Describe the law of Identities.
The Law of identities helps in simplifying complex problems into a simpler ones.
Answer: Various laws of identities are given below.
Go through the explanation understand it in detail.
Explanation:
Let sets A, B, C be subsets of a universal set U. Various identity laws associated with these sets are:
1) Identity Law: A ∪ ∅ = A, A ∩ U = A
2) Complement Law: A ∪ Ac = U, A ∩ Ac = ∅
3) Commutative Laws: A ∪ B = B ∪ A, A ∩ B = B ∩ A
4) Associative Laws: A ∪ (B ∪ C) = (A ∪ B) ∪ C, A ∩ (B ∩ C) = (A ∩ B) ∩ C
5) Distributive Laws: A ∪ (B ∩ C) = (A ∪ B) ∩ (A ∪ C), A ∩ (B ∪ C) = (A ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ C)
6) De Morgan's Law: (A ∪ B)c = Ac ∩ Bc, (A ∩ B)c = Ac ∪ Bc
7) Absorption Laws: A ∪ (A ∩ B) = A, A ∩ (A ∪ B) = A
8) Complements of U and ∅: Uc = ∅, ∅c = U
9) Set Difference Law: A∖B = A ∩ Bc
Similar to the identities, we can also make use of the operations on set to work upon similar identities, in the case of sets.