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Answer:

(c) 81

Explanation:

Given sets:

  • P = {1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)
  • Q = {2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15}

For two sets Q and P, the Cartesian product Q × P is defined as:

Q × P = q ∈ Q and p ∈ P

Therefore, the Cartesian product of two sets Q and P includes all possible combinations of elements from Q and P as ordered pairs. The first element in each pair comes from set Q, and the second element comes from set P.

The symbol "n" before a set represents the number of elements in that set.

Therefore, n(P × Q) represents the number of elements in the Cartesian product of sets P and Q.

There are 8 elements in set P and 9 elements in set Q. Therefore:

n(P × Q) = 8 × 9 = 72

Similarly:

n((P × Q) × Q) = (8 × 9) × 9 = 72 × 9 = 648

In the given sets P and Q, the elements 4, 5, 9, and 12 are common to both sets. After finding the Cartesian product of P × Q, as well as Q × P, the common elements in the intersection are:

((P × Q) ∩ (Q × P)) = {(4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 9), (4, 12), (5, 4), (5, 5), (5, 9), (5, 12), (9, 4), (9, 5), (9, 9), (9, 12), (12, 4), (12, 5), (12, 9), (12, 12)}

Therefore, the number of elements in ((P × Q) ∩ (Q × P)) is 16.

Therefore:


\begin{aligned}(2 * n\left(\left(P * Q \right) * Q \right))/(n\left(\left(P * Q \right) \cap \left(Q * P \right)\right))&=(2 * \left(\left(8 * 9 \right) * 9 \right))/(16)\\\\&=(2 * (72 * 9))/(16)\\\\&=(2(648))/(16)\\\\&=(1296)/(16)\\\\&=81\end{aligned}

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