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Two meromorphic functions are said to share a set S ⊂ ℂ∪{∞} ignoring multiplicities (IM) if S has the same preimages under both functions. If any two nonconstant meromorphic functions sharing a set IM are identical, then the set is called a “reduced unique-range set for meromorphic functions” [RURSM (or URSM-IM)]. From the existing literature, it is known that there exists a RURSM with 17 elements. We reduce the cardinality of the existing RURSM and show that there exists a RURSM with 15 elements. Our result gives an affirmative answer to the question of L. Z. Yang [ Int. Soc. Anal. Appl. Comput. , 7, 551–564 (2000)].