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This document contains 19 math problems covering topics like sets, orderings, fields, rational and irrational numbers, inequalities, functions, and complex numbers. The problems involve proving statements, finding bounds, solving inequalities, and finding roots of polynomials.

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UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
MT 100: FOUNDATION OF ANALYSIS
TUTORIAL SHEET 4, 2021/2022.

1. Prove that if X is nite set with |X| = n, then |℘(X)| = 2n .


2. By using suitable examples dierentiate between eld, F, ordered eld and
complete ordered eld. Why Q is not complete ordered eld?
3. Let S be a set. Dene an order of set S . By suitable example what it means
by an ordered set ?
4. Prove that between two rational numbers r and s there is rational number
r+s
.
2
5. Use eld axioms to prove that
(a) −(−x) = x.
(b) If x 6= 0 and y 6= 0, then xy 6= 0.
6. Prove that the following are true in every ordered eld
(a) If x > 0, then −x < 0 and vice versa.
(b) If x > 0 and y < z , then xy < xz .
(c) If x < 0 and y < z , then xy > xz .
(d) If x 6= 0, then x2 > 0. In particular 1 > 0.
1 1
(e) If 0 < x < y , then 0 < < .
y x
√
7. Prove that p is prime number, then p is irrational.

8. Prove that between any two distinct rational numbers there are innitely
many irrational numbers.
9. Prove the algebraic identity that (a − b) · (a + b) = a2 − b2 .
10. Prove that a · b + b · c + c · a ≤ a2 + b2 + c2 , ∀a, b, c ∈ R.
11. Use axioms of arithmetic to prove that if a, b ∈ R, then |a + b| ≤ |a| + |b|.
12. The following sets are bounded
 above; identify the set of upper bounds
 in 
1 1 2 3
each case; (0, 1), x : > 2 , {x ∈ Q : x < 4} , {x ∈ Q : x ≤ 4} , , , ,···
  x 2 3 4
1 1 1
and , , ,··· .
2 3 4
13. If A is a bounded non-empty subset of R, then inf A ≤ sup A.
14. Let A and B be two non-empty sets which are bounded above and let C =
{x + y : x ∈ A and y ∈ B}. Show that sup C = sup A + sup B .
15. Find sup f (x) and inf f (x) for each of the following functions on the indi-
cated domain:
(a) f (x) = 3 + 2x − x2 on (0, 4).
(b) f (x) = 2 − |x − 1| on (−2, 2).
(c) f (x) = −e−|x| on (−∞, ∞).
1 − x2
(d) f (x) = on (−∞, ∞).
1 + x2
16. Prove that x, y ∈ R, |xy| = |x| · |y| and |x + y| ≤ |x| + |y|.
17. 
Find all the points x which
 lie in the set A, where:
5x + 6 2x − 1
x: > .
x+2 x−1
18. If z and w are complex numbers and w = 2z 2 + 1, use the denition of
modulus, ww̄ = |w|2 to show that |w|2 = 4 (|z|4 + Re(z 2 )) + 1.
 
2 5 4
19. (a) Suppose C = z : z − < . By using denition of modulus and
3 3
without expressing z into its real and imaginary parts, deduce that the
inequality can be expressed as 3|z|4 − 10Re(z 2 ) < −3.
(b) Find the roots of the function f (x) = x5 − 2x4 − x3 + 6x − 4.

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