Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH220/April 2011/Question 09 (b)
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Question 09 (b) |
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Let be functions so that g ○f is a surjective function. Give an example of sets A, B and functions f, g as above such that f is not surjective. |
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Start with a choice of sets A and B and functions f and g such that is surjective. If f isn't surjective, you won, that's your example! If not, can you add some elements to the set B to tweak your example and obtain what you're looking for? |
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Solution 1 |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. We showed in part (a) that the function g will always be surjective, this question asks us to give an example to illustrate why the function f doesn't have to be necessarily. For example, consider the case where the set A is all the natural numbers including zero: A={ 0, 1, 2, ... } and the set B is all the integers: B = { ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ... }. Now the function f just maps a natural number to itself, so and the function g maps an integer to its absolute value, so Then the function is clearly surjective since it takes a natural number back to itself. That is, for all . But the function f isn't surjective since it doesn't map to any negative integer (no negative number has a pre-image under the function f). Notice that as shown in part (a) the function g is, and has to be, surjective. |
Solution 2 |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. Another, minimal example is the following: Let A = {a}, and B = {1,2}. Then define Then, clearly and thus is surjective. However, f is not surjective, since does not have a pre-image in A under f. Notice again, that g is, and needs to be, surjective for to be surjective. |