JEE Main 2025MathematicsSets And RelationsSymmetric Transitive And Reflexive PropertiesmediumMCQ

JEE Main 2025Sets And Relations Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2025 (Online) 4th April Evening Shift

Question

Let and R be a relation on A defined by if and only if . Let be the number of elements in . Let and be the minimum number of elements required to be added in R to make it reflexive and symmetric relations, respectively. Then is equal to:

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A17

Step-by-step explanation

But other such that

5 other pairs needs to be added

to be symmetric

needs to be added,

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