Consider the following statements which one of them is incorrect?
Consider the following statements which one of them is incorrect?
Answer: D. None of these — Answer: 'None of these' is correct because all three statements are true. A finite lattice is always bounded — Reason: In a finite lattice the join of all…
- A.
A finite lattice is always bounded
- B.
A bounded and complemented lattice may or may not be distributive lattice
- C.
Complemented lattice is a proper subset of bounded lattice
- D.
None of these
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Correct answer: D
Answer: 'None of these' is correct because all three statements are true.
A finite lattice is always bounded — Reason: In a finite lattice the join of all elements (computed iteratively using pairwise joins) yields a greatest element and the meet of all elements yields a least element, so the lattice has both top and bottom.
A bounded and complemented lattice may or may not be distributive — Reason: Complementation means each element has at least one complement, but distributivity is an independent, stronger property. For example, the five-element nondistributive lattice M3 is bounded and complemented but not distributive. A complemented distributive lattice is a Boolean algebra, but complemented alone does not imply distributivity.
Complemented lattice is a proper subset of bounded lattice — Reason: By definition a complemented lattice is bounded and every element has a complement, so complemented lattices are contained in bounded lattices. The inclusion is proper because there exist bounded lattices that are not complemented; for example, the three-element chain 0 < a < 1 is bounded but the middle element a has no complement.
Therefore, none of the three given statements is incorrect; selecting 'None of these' is the correct answer.