What is the difference between a collection and a set? Give reasons to support your answer?

Explanation

A set is a well-defined collection of distinct objects. A collection is simply a group of the objects.
The members of the set should be well defined. One can identify which elements are included in the set and which not.
A collection can include different types of elements i.e. it can contain alphabets, numbers, names etc. In a collection element can repeat. The objects of the collection can be repeated. They are not distinct.