You have the permutations written wrong.
You write them in two lines, like this.
a.
First we write the permutation as a product of cycles, then as product of
transposition.
1 goes to 2, 2 goes back to 1, where we started, so that's the cycle [1,2]
The first number you haven't been to is 3.
3 goes to 4, 4 goes to 5, 5 goes back to 3, where we started, so that's cycle [3,4,5]
The first number you haven't been to is 6.
6 goes to 7, 7 goes to 8, 8 goes back to 6, where we started, so that's cycle [6,7,8].
Now you've been to all the numbers 1 through 8 inclusive.
So the product of cycles is [1,2][3,4,5][6,7,8].
Now to change the product of cycles to a product of transposition:
A transposition is a cycle of length 2.
[1,2] is already a transposition because it has length 2.
[3,4,5] becomes [3,5][3,4]
[6,7,8] becomes [6,8][6,7][6,8]
So the product of transposition is [1,2][3,5][3,4][6,8][6,7]6,8]
b.
First we write the permutation as a product of cycles, then as product of
transposition.
1 goes to 3, 3 goes to 5, 5 goes to 6, 6 goes back to 1, where we started, so that's the cycle [1,3,5,6]
The first number you haven't been to is 2.
2 goes to 7, 7 goes to 4, 4 goes back to 8, 8 goes back to 2, where we started, so that's cycle [2,7,4,8]
Now you've been to all the numbers 1 through 8 inclusive.
So the product of cycles is [1,3,5,6][2,7,4,8].
Now to change the product of cycles to a product of transposition:
A transposition is a cycle of length 2.
[1,3,5,6] = [1,6][1,5][1,3]
[2,7,4,8] = [2,8][2,4][2,7]
So the product of transpositions is [1,6][1,5][1,3][2,8][2,4][2,7]
You do the third one the same way. But write it like this first
Sometimes a cycle has just one number, when a number goes to itself. [Sometimes
people don't even write the cycles that have just one number. They're just
understood.]
c.
Edwin