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The empty relation on a non-empty set A is:

Answer: Symmetric and transitive but not reflexive.

  • A Symmetric and transitive but not reflexive
  • B Reflexive but not symmetric
  • C An equivalence relation
  • D Reflexive and transitive

Correct answer: A. Symmetric and transitive but not reflexive

Explanation: With no pairs at all, symmetry and transitivity hold vacuously, but reflexivity fails since (a, a) is missing.

Concept context

Types of relations, equivalence classes, one-one and onto functions, composition, and invertible functions

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