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Blitzer - College Algebra 8th Edition
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Capitolo 1, Problema 27

Find the intersection of the sets. {a,b,c,d}∩∅

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Recall that the intersection of two sets, denoted by \(A \cap B\), is the set of all elements that are common to both sets \(A\) and \(B\).
Identify the two sets given: the first set is \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) and the second set is the empty set \(\emptyset\).
Understand that the empty set \(\emptyset\) contains no elements at all.
Since there are no elements in \(\emptyset\), there can be no elements common to both \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) and \(\emptyset\).
Therefore, the intersection \(\{a,b,c,d\} \cap \emptyset\) is the empty set \(\emptyset\).

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