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This exercise is designed to give some insight into the Banach–Tarski paradox. Find each o...

This exercise is designed to give some insight into the Banach–Tarski paradox. Find each of the following without using the axiom of choice.

(a) A subset of IR that is congruent to a proper subset of itself.


(b) A bounded subset of the plane that is congruent to a proper subset of itself.


(c) A bounded subset S of the plane such that S is the disjoint union of two nonempty sets S1 and S2, and where S1 and S2 are both congruent to S.

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