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This document outlines 8 math exercises for homework 1 that are due on January 22, 2007. The exercises cover topics like proving statements about irrational and rational numbers, properties of ordered sets and bounds, properties of real number sets, and properties of vectors and dot products in spaces of dimension k.

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Homework 1

This document outlines 8 math exercises for homework 1 that are due on January 22, 2007. The exercises cover topics like proving statements about irrational and rational numbers, properties of ordered sets and bounds, properties of real number sets, and properties of vectors and dot products in spaces of dimension k.

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(Math 360) Homework 1:


Due January 22, 2007

Exercise 1: If r is rational (r 6= 0) and x is irrational, prove r + x and rx are


irrational.

Exercise 2: Prove that there is no rational number whose square if 12

Exercise 3: Prove the axioms of multiplication for a field imply the following state-
ments:

(a) If x 6= 0 and xy = xz then y = z

(b) If x 6= 0 and xy = x then y = 1

(c) If x 6= 0 and xy = 1 then y = 1/x

(d) If x 6= 0 then 1/(1/x) = x

Exercise 4: Let E be a nonempty subset of an ordered set. Suppose α is a lower


bound of E and β is an upper bound of E. Prove α ≤ β.

Exercise 5: Let A be a nonempty set of real numbers which is bounded below and
let −A = {−x : x ∈ A} (i.e. the set of all −x with x ∈ A). Prove

inf A = −sup(−A)

Exercise 6: Suppose b > 0 a real number. If m, n, p, q are integers, n > 0, q > 0


and r = m/n = p/q prove

(bm )1/n = (bp )1/q


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Hence it makes sense to define br = (bm )1/n (Note: You can assume
that for all positive real numbers c and integers p there is a unique real
number d with dp = c (i.e. d = c1/p is well defined))

Exercise 7: Suppose k ≥ 3, x, y ∈ Rk , |x − y| = d > 0 and r > 0. Prove

(a) If 2r > d there are infinitely many z ∈ Rk such that

|z − x| = |z − y| = r

(b) If 2r = d there is exactly one such z

(c) If 2r < d there is no such z

How must these statements be modified if k is 2 or 1?

Exercise 8: If k ≥ 2 and x ∈ Rk prove that there exists y ∈ Rk such that y 6= 0


but x · y = 0

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