Solution

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The hypothesis is a two-transitive group action. Given , apply it to and . The resulting element fixes and sends to , so the stabilizer subgroup acts transitively on the remaining points.
The action on all of is also transitive. By the orbit-stabilizer theorem,
Thus . The diagonal pairs form one orbit, while two-transitivity makes all ordered unequal pairs a second orbit. Equality is preserved by a group action, so these cannot mix. There are exactly two orbits on .

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