Let the set of all relations on the set , such that is reflexive and symmetric, and contains exactly 10 elements, be denoted by .Find the number of elements in .\
[THOUGHT] To solve this problem, we need to count the number of reflexive, symmetric relations on a set of 6 elements (a, b, c, d, e, f) that contain exactly 10 elements.
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Reflexive Relations: A reflexive relation on a set of size ( n ) must include all ( n ) pairs of the form ((x, x)). Here, ( n = 6 ), so the relation must include ((a, a), (b, b), \ldots, (f, f)).
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Symmetric Relations: A symmetric relation must include both ((x, y)) and ((y, x)) for any ( x \neq y ).
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Total Elements: The relation must have exactly 10 elements. Since the reflexive pairs account for 6 elements, the remaining 4 elements must come from symmetric pairs ((x, y)) and ((y, x)). Each such pair contributes 2 elements to the relation.
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Counting Symmetric Pairs: The number of possible symmetric pairs (excluding the diagonal) is the number of ways to choose 2 distinct elements from 6, which is ( \binom{6}{2} = 15 ). We need to choose 2 such pairs (since each pair contributes 2 elements, and we need 4 more elements).
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Combination Calculation: The number of ways to choose 2 pairs from 15 is ( \binom{15}{2} = 105 ).
Thus, the number of such relations is 105. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] from math import comb
Number of symmetric pairs (excluding diagonal)
n = 6 symmetric_pairs = comb(n, 2)
Number of ways to choose 2 pairs to add 4 elements (since each pair adds 2 elements)
result = comb(symmetric_pairs, 2)
print(result) [/PYTHON]
[THOUGHT] The Python output confirms that the number of reflexive, symmetric relations on a 6-element set with exactly 10 elements is 105. [/THOUGHT] \boxed{105}