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Ch. R - Review of Basic Concepts
Lial - College Algebra 13th Edition
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1장, 문제 38

Insert ∈ or ∉ in each blank to make the resulting statement true. ∅ ____ ∅

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Understand the symbols involved: ∅ represents the empty set, which contains no elements.
Recall the meaning of the symbols ∈ and ∉: ∈ means 'is an element of', and ∉ means 'is not an element of'.
Analyze the statement ∅ ____ ∅: The first ∅ is the object we are checking, and the second ∅ is the set we are checking membership in.
Since the empty set ∅ is a set itself, it is not an element of the empty set (which has no elements). Therefore, the correct symbol to use is ∉.
So, the completed statement is ∅ ∉ ∅, meaning the empty set is not an element of the empty set.

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