Solution

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Compose permutations from right to left. The three transpositions are , and . In cycle notation, direct composition gives
The complete symmetric group is therefore
Conjugation relabels the entries of a cycle, so the conjugacy classes are precisely
Their sizes are , respectively. The differing orders of group elements also show that these three sets cannot merge under conjugation.

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