036-2015

MO640 - Multiple-choice question

Which sentence is false?

Figure 1

          

                Figure 2

     

     Figure 3

a. The cycle notation for the permutation in Figure 1 is β = (1 5 4 3 2).
b. The cycle notation for the permutation in Figure 2 is α = (1 2 3 4 5).
c. The permutation in Figure 1 is the inverse of the permutation in Figure 3.
d. The permutations in Figures 2 and 3 commute.
e. None of the above

Original idea by: Jéssica Akemi Matsuoka