Posted by Bryan on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:57pm.
The total number of subsets = 2^7 = 128
This includes the null set
So what we want is
the null set, the set of singles, the set of doubles and the set of triples
= 1 + C(7,1) + C(7,2) + c(7,3)
= 1 + 7 + 21 + 35
= 64
So the number of subsets with at most 3 elements is 64
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