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Question 2.3.12

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7 months ago

(a) True. By the order limit theorem, for any sequence ana_{n} that converges to aa,

cR,nN,anc    ac.\forall c \in \mathbb{R}, \forall n \in \mathbb{N}, \quad a_{n} \geq c \implies a \geq c.

By applying this theorem on the set BB, we have

bB,nR,anb    ab\forall b \in B, \forall n \in \mathbb{R}, \quad a_{n} \geq b \implies a \geq b

and we can conclude that the limit of ana_{n} also is an upper bound for all terms belonging to BB.

(b) False. We do a simple proof by contradiction. Suppose that the sequence ana_{n} has all of its terms in

(0,1)c=(,0][1,)(0, 1)^{c} = (-\infty, 0] \cup [1, \infty)

but that its limit aa is in (0,1)(0, 1). By definition, we can then choose ϵ=a\epsilon = a for which

NN,nN,nN    ana<a.\exists N \in \mathbb{N}, \forall n \in \mathbb{N}, \quad n \geq N \implies \abs{a_{n} - a} < a.

However, this implies that ana_{n} is in (0,1)(0, 1) for every nNn \geq N when we assumed that no ana_{n} is in (0,1)(0, 1).

(c) False. We can create sequences that approach an irrational number via only rational ones. The question is: do we have an infinite number of irrational numbers ever closer to it? The answer to that is yes since the rational numbers are dense in R\mathbb{R}.

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