Practicing Success
Consider the non-empty set consisting of children in a family and a relation R is defined as aRb if a is a brother of b. Then R is : |
Symmetric but not transitive Transitive but not symmetric Both symmetric and transitive Neither symmetric nor transitive |
Transitive but not symmetric |
The correct answer is Option (2) → Transitive but not symmetric R is not Reflexive as one can't be brother of oneself R is not symmetric as if $(a, b) ∈R$ ⇒ a is brother of b but $(b,a)∉R$ always as b may b sister of a R is transitive as $(a, b) ∈R$ ⇒ a is brother of b, $(b, c) ∈R$ ⇒ b is brother of c ⇒ a is brother of c so $(a, c) ∈R$ |