Question

A general election of Lok Sabha is a gigantic exercise. About 911 million people were eligible to vote and voter turnout was about 67%, the highest ever

Let I be the set of all citizens of India who were eligible to exercise their voting right in the general election held in 2019. A relation ‘R’ is defined on I as follows:

R = {(V1, V2) ∶ V1, V2 ∈ I and both use their voting right in the general election - 2019}

• The above-defined relation R is ____________.

Options

• Symmetric and transitive but not reflexive

• Universal relation

• Equivalence relation

• Reflexive but not symmetric and transitive

Answer 1

The above-defined relation R is an Equivalence relation.