Cardinality of Subset of Finite Set

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Theorem

Let $A$ and $B$ be finite sets such that $A \subseteq B$.

Let

$\card B = n$

where $\card {\, \cdot \,}$ denotes cardinality.


Then $\card A \le n$.


Proof

Let $A \subseteq B$.


There are two cases:


$(1): \quad A \ne B$

In this case:

$A \subsetneqq B$

and from Cardinality of Proper Subset of Finite Set:

$\card A < n$


$(2): \quad A = B$

In this case:

$\card A = \card B$

and so:

$\card A = n$


In both cases:

$\card A \le n$

Hence the result.

$\blacksquare$


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