# Math Help - Truth table correct?

1. ## Truth table correct?

Is this truth table correct?

Thanks

Edit: should be $x \in A$, $x \in B$ etc...

For the last two I thought of them like this: If $x \in A, x \in B$ then $x \in A \cup B$ is true. However if $x \in C$ then $x \in (A \cup B) - C$ is false. So we require that $x \not \in C$ for the statement to be true. So the $'-'$ operation is sort of like the $\cap$ operation in terms of truths.

Crap...just realized I screwed up. For all $x \in C$ then the second to last statement is false. For all $x \not \in C$ then that statement is true.

The last one is basically a union of two sets. So to be false, $x \not \in A-B$ and $x \not \in C$

2. Frankly, I am not at all sure what you are trying to do here.
Not sure how your text/instructor applies truth-values to sets.

However, here is the traditional understanding.
$\left( {A \cup B} \right) - C$ would be (A or B) and not C; $\left( {A \vee B} \right) \wedge (\neg C)$.

Whereas $\left( {A - B} \right) \cup C$ would be (A and not B) or C; $\left( {A \wedge \neg B} \right) \vee C$.

This is not what your table of values represents!

3. Thats why I added the $x \in A, x \in B \ldots$.

Otherwise they wouldn't be statements (i.e. you can't say the set $A$ is false).

4. Originally Posted by shilz222
Thats why I added the $x \in A, x \in B \ldots$. Otherwise they wouldn't be statements (i.e. you can't say the set $A$ is false).
But even with those additions, what in what sense does it make to assign a truth-value to $x \in A$?

Are you try to decide the truth-value of:
$\text{If}\;x \in A,\;x \in B\;\text{and}\;x \notin C\;\text{then}\;x \in \left( {A \cup B} \right) - C$?

5. No I am trying to do the following:

$x \in A, \ x \in B, \ x \in C, \ x \in (A \cup B) - C, \ x \in (A-B) \cup C$ are all statements.

Therefore we can assign truth values to them. So for the statement $x \in (A \cup B) - C$ to be true, we require that $x \not \in C$ or $x \in C$ to be false right? If $x \in C$ then the statement $x \in (A \cup B) - C$ is false (looking at a venn-diagram).

So the statement $x \in A$ is true means $x \in A$.

If the statement $x \in A$ is false then $x \not \in A$.

6. Well I would expect that it means this:

7. Yes that what I meant in my first post (with the $x \in A$ $x \in B$ etc..).

Thanks