True or False?
Probability
Level
2
Decide if the following assertion is true or false?
"The empty set is always a subset of any another set"
Please write your Justification.
Not always
False
True
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1 solution
By definition, A is a subset of B if every element of A is an element of B as well. If A is the empty set, this is true, trivially, since there are no elements in A .