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JEE Main 2023Sets And Relations Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2023 (Online) 15th April Morning Shift

Question

Let and be a relation on the set defined by

. Then the number of elements in is ____________.

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Show full solutionCorrect answer: 18
Correct answer
18

Step-by-step explanation



Given A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, the maximum value of is 20, when (a, b) = (4, 4), and the minimum value of is 9, when (c, d) = (1, 1). Therefore, the possible values for are 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19.

Now, let's find the combinations of (a, b), (c, d) that satisfy the given equation:

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There are a total of 6 elements in the relation R for the given equation with the specified values of a, b, c, and d.

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