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Exercise 12

Avg difficulty 3.0

Consider the set of students in a class. Which of the following relationships are equivalence relations? Explain each answer in at least a sentence.

  • Two students x,yx,y are related if xx has taken at least as many math classes as yy.

  • Students x,yx,y are related if they have names that start with the same letter.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Linear Systems, Gauss-Jordan Reduction, Exercise 12

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