Sets — IGCSE Mathematics - International (0607) questions by topic
Venn diagrams dominate here: describing shaded regions using set notation across two- and three-set diagrams, completing a diagram from given set sizes for students who eat eggs or cereal, and finding the complement of a union from labelled region counts.
Describe, complete, find, draw and state lead the command words, worth from 2 to 4 marks, across a small set of 6 questions from 2025 papers. Because set notation must be written precisely to earn credit, practise writing out the correct symbols for intersection, union and complement rather than describing regions in words, then use instant marking to check whether your notation matched exactly what the diagram showed.
May–June 2025, Paper 11
For each Venn diagram, shade the given set. The first Venn diagram (universal set U with two overlapping circles A and B) is labelled Set B. The second Venn diagram (universal set…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 12
There are 25 students in a class. E = {students that eat eggs} C = {students that eat cereal} n(E) = 11 n(C) = 13 n(E ∩ C) = 8 Complete the Venn diagram to represent this…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 22
Use set notation to describe each of the shaded regions. The first Venn diagram (universal set U) shows two overlapping sets A and B. The whole rectangle is shaded except for set…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 33
The Venn diagram shows the number of elements in each region: A only contains 15, A ∩ B contains 7, B only contains 11, and outside both A and B (inside U) contains 3. Find n(A').
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 41
Use set notation to describe each of the shaded regions. First diagram: a Venn diagram with universal set U containing two overlapping sets A and B. The shaded region is the part…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 43
Use set notation to describe the shaded region. [A Venn diagram with universal set U contains three overlapping sets A, B and C. A and B are the two upper circles (overlapping…
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