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Let A = {a, b, c}. What is the equivalence relation of smallest cardinality on A? What is the equivalence relation of largest cardinality on A?

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Let A = {a, b, c}. What is the equivalence relation of smallest cardinality on A? What is the equivalence relation of largest cardinality on A?

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R = {{a, a), (b, b), (c, c)} is this smallest cardinality of A to make it equivalence relation n(R) = 3

R = {(a, a), (a, b), (a, c), (b, c), (b, b), {b, a), (c, a), (c, b), (c, c)}

n(R) = 9 is the largest cardinality of R to make it equivalence

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Chapter 1: Sets, Relations and Functions - Exercise 1.2 [Page 19]

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Chapter 1 Sets, Relations and Functions
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