Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2003/ia/paper-4/2c/iii/solution

This is not an equivalence relation. For , , so reflexivity fails. It is symmetric, because is the conjugate of , and an integer is real. It also fails transitivity: take and . Then are integers but is not. A single failure would suffice, but these examples identify exactly which properties break.

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