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KC Sinha: Exercise 2.1- Mathematics Solution Class 12 Chapter 2 फलन

[mathjax] Question 1 Let A={1,2,3}, B={4,5,6,7} and let f={(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)} be a function from A to B. Show that f is one-one. Sol : Question 2 Let $f: N \rightarrow N$ be defined by $f(x)=2 x$....

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Question 1

Let A={1,2,3}, B={4,5,6,7} and let f={(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)} be a function from A to B. Show that f is one-one.

Sol :

Question 2

Let $f: N \rightarrow N$ be defined by $f(x)=2 x$. Show that $f$ is one-one but not onto.

Question 3

Let $f: R \rightarrow R$ be defined by $f(x)=x^{2}$. Is $f$ one-to-one ?

Sol :

Question 4

Let $f: Z \rightarrow Z$ be defined by $f(x)=-x$. Show that $f$ is a bijective function.

Sol :

Question 5

Examine in each case whether the function is onto, one-one or bijective. Justify your answer.

(i) $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by $f(x)=1+x^{2}$

(ii) $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by $f(x)=3-4 x$

Sol :

Question 6

Let $A=\{1,2,3), B=\{4,5\}$ and let $f=\{(1,4),(2,5),(3,5)\}$. show that f is not one-one but onto function from A to B.

Sol :

Question 7

Let $f: A \rightarrow B$ be one-to-one function such that range of $f=\{b\}$. Determine the number of elements in A.

Sol :

Question 8

If N is the set of natural numbers and $A=\{0,1\}$, then prove that $f: N \rightarrow A$ defined by $f(2 x)=0$ and $f(2 x+1)=1, \forall x \in N$ is a many-one onto function.

Sol :

Question 9

(i) If $A=\{1,-1,2,-2\}$ and $B=\{2,5,7\}$, then show that $f: A \rightarrow B$ defined by $f(x)=x^{2}+1$ is neither one-one nor onto function.

(ii) Show that the function $f: N \rightarrow N$ defined by $f(x)=x^{2}, x \in N$ (set of all positive integers) is one-one but not onto.

Sol :

Question 10

Discuss the function $f:\{1,2,3\} \rightarrow\{0,3,7,13,14\}$ for one-one onto, where $f(x)=x^{2}+x+1$

Sol :

Question 11

Test the following functions for one-one and onto :

(i) $f: N \rightarrow N: f(x)=3 x+5$

(ii) $f: R \rightarrow R: f(x)=x^{2}$

(iii) $f: R \rightarrow R: f(x)=x^{2}+5$

(iv) $f: R \rightarrow R: f(x)=e^{x}$

(v) $f: C \rightarrow R: f(x+i y)=x, y \in R$.

where N= Set of natural numbers, 

R= Set of real numbers,

C= Set of complex numbers.

Sol :

Question 12

Check the injectivity and surjectivity of the following functions :

(i) $f: N \rightarrow N$ defined by $f(x)=3 x$

(ii) $f: N \rightarrow N$ defined by $f(x)=x^{2}+1$

(iii) $f: Z \rightarrow Z$ defined by $f(x)=x^{2}$

(iv) $f: Z \rightarrow Z$ defined by $f(x)=2 x+1$

(v) $f: Z \rightarrow Z$ defined by $f(x)=x^{3}$

(vi) $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by $f(x)=x^{3}$

(vii) $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by $f(x)=[x]$

(viii) $f: R \rightarrow Z$ defined by $f(x)=[x]$

where $[x]$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.

Sol :

Question 13

Let $f: R \rightarrow R$ be defined by

$f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{r}1, \text { if } x>0 \\0, \text { if } x=0 \\-1, \text { if } x<0\end{array}\right.$

Examine the function f for one-one onto.

Sol :

Question 14

Let A be the set of all 50 students of class XII in a particular school. Let $f: A \rightarrow N$ be a function defined by $f(x)=$ roll number of the student $x$. Show that $f$ is one-one but not onto.

Sol :

Question 15

Let A and B be two non-empty sets. Prove that there exists a one - one onto function from $A \times B$ to $B \times A$.

Sol :

Question 16

Show that a one-one function $f:\{1,2,3\} \rightarrow\{1,2,3\}$ must be onto.

Sol :

Question 17

Show that an onto function $f:\{1,2,3\} \rightarrow\{1,2,3\}$ is necessarily one-one. 

Sol :

Question 18

Examine the type of the following function $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by

(i) $f(x)=x^{3}$

(ii) $f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{r}1, \text { if } x \text { is rational } \\ -1, \text { if } x \text { is irrational }\end{array}\right.$

Sol :

Question 19

Show that the function $f: R \rightarrow R$ defined by f(x)=x-[x]. where [x] denotes the integral part of x is neither one-one nor onto.

Sol :

Question 20

Show that the function $f: N \rightarrow I$ defined by

$f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{2}(n-1), \text { when } n \text { is odd } \\ -\frac{1}{2} n, \text { when } n \text { is even }\end{array}\right.$ 

is bijective

Sol :

Question 21

If A={2,3,4}, B={2,5,6,7} then construct a function which is 

(i) one-one

(ii) many-one.

Sol :

Question 22

If $A=\{1,3,5\}, B=\{2,4,6\} .$ Then find all possible one-one functions from $A$ to $B$. 

Sol :

Question 23

Let $A=\{1,2,3\}$. Find all one-to-one functions from $A$ to $A$.

Sol :

Question 24

Let A={-1,0,1} and $f=\left\{\left(x, x^{2}\right): x \in A\right\}$. Show that $f: A \rightarrow A$ is neither one-to-one nor onto.

Sol :

Question 25

Determine whether the function given below is one-one:

To each state of India assign its capital.

Sol :

Question 26

Let A be a finite set. If $f: A \rightarrow A$ is one-to-one. Show that f is onto.

Sol :

Question 27

Let A and B be two sets each with a finite number of elements. If there is an injective function from $A$ to $B$ and there is an injective function from $B$ to $A$. prove that there is a bijective function from $A$ to $B$.

Sol :

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