let $gamma(s_n)$ be the minimum number of proper subgroups $h_i, i=1, dots, l $ of the symmetric group $s_n$ such that each element in $s_n$ lies in some conjugate of one of the $h_i.$ in this paper we conjecture that $$gamma(s_n)=frac{n}{2}left(1-frac{1}{p_1}right) left(1-frac{1}{p_2}right)+2,$$ where $p_1,p_2$ are the two smallest primes in the factorization of $ninmathbb{n}$ an...