Calculate the number of equivalence classes

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Let $A = \{1,2,3,4,5,6\}$ and let $B = \{1,2,3\}$

Let $R$ be a relation such that $R=\{(x,y) \in P(A) \times P(A): x \cap B = y\cap B\}$

How many equivalence classes are possible?

I'm kinda stuck at this problem... can't seem to visualize this or find the correct path to calculate this.

Some help? Thanks.

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$x\cap B$ is a subset of $B$ and $B$ has $8$ subsets. For each of these subsets there is one equivalence class. So the required number is $8$.