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Determine the partitions of the set {3, 4, 5, 6, 7} from the following subsets.(a) {3,5}, {3,6,7}, {4,5,6}(b) {3}, {4,6}, {5}, {7}(c) {3,4,6}, {7}(d) {5,6}, {5,7}The question was posed to me in an interview for job.My query is from Relations topic in chapter Relations of Discrete Mathematics

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Right option is (b) {3}, {4,6}, {5}, {7}

To EXPLAIN I would SAY: {3,5}, {3,6,7}, {4,5,6}. It is not a PARTITION because these sets are not pairwise disjoint. The elements 3, 5 and 6 appear repeatedly these sets. {1}, {2,3,6}, {4}, {5} – this is a partition as they are pairwise disjoint. {3,4,6}, {7} – this is not a partition as ELEMENT 5 is missing.

{5,6}, {5,7} – this is not a partition because it is missing the elements 3, 4 in any of the sets.



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