14. How many different relexive, symmetric relations are there on the set {a,b,c}? O 10 none of these 8
14. How many different relexive, symmetric relations are there on the set {a,b,c}? O 10 none of these 8
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S = {a, b, c}
|S| = 3
Here the total possible relations are: 32 = 9
For the relation to be reflexive, we have the diagonal entries [(a, a), (b, b), (c, c)] of the table which can be chosen in only 1 way.
Now, for the symmetric relation whenever (a, b) we have (b, a) . Thus, we have:
So, we have 23 ways of picking the pairs of distinct elements for symmetric relation.
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