Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 2 - Section 2.2 - Set Operations - Exercises - Page 137: 39

Answer

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This must mean that $B = \emptyset$: $B$ must be disjoint from $A$, since if they overlapped, we could find something in $A$ but not in the symmetric difference. But if $B$ contained an element not in $A$, this would also be a problem, since then we can find something in the symmetric difference but not in $A$.
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