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JEE Main 2024Sets And Relations Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2024 (Online) 6th April Morning Shift

Question

Let the relations and on the set be given by and . If and be the minimum number of elements required to be added in and , respectively, in order to make the relations symmetric, then equals

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Correct answer
D10

Step-by-step explanation

So and both has to be even or odd simultaneously and can't be odd so and both will be even

For symmetric we need to add 6 elements as

For

and has to be equal is always even so will also be even

For symmetric we need to add 4 element as

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