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Decide which of the following statements are true and which are false. Prove the true ones...

Decide which of the following statements are true and which are false. Prove the true ones and provide counterexamples for the false ones.

a) Suppose that IR is nonempty. If f : IR is 1–1 and continuous, then f is strictly monotone on I .


b) Suppose that I is an open interval which contains 0 and that f : IR is 1–1 and differentiable. If f and f′ are never zero on I, then the derivative of f−1 has at least one root in f (I); that is, there is an aI such that (f−1)′(a) = 0.


c) Suppose that f and g are 1–1 on R. If f and gf are continuous on R, then g is continuous on R.


d) Suppose that I is an open interval and that aI . Suppose further that f : IR and g : f (I) → R are both 1–1 and continuous and that b := f (a). If f′(a) and g′(b) both exist and are nonzero, then (gf)−1(x) is differentiable at x = g(b), and ((gf)−1)′ (g(b)) =(f′(a) · g′(b))−1.

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