Determine whether the following relations are equivalence relations. For those relations that are equivalence relations, describe the equivalence classes. (b) {(x, y) ∈ R × R : |x| = |y|}, where |x| is the absolute value of x

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Determine whether the following relations are equivalence relations. For those relations
that are equivalence relations, describe the equivalence classes.
(b) {(x, y) ∈ R × R : |x| = |y|}, where |x| is the absolute value of x

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