- AThere are infinitely many functions from to
- BThere are infinitely many strictly increasing functions from to
- CThe number of continuous functions from to is at most 120
- DEvery continuous function from to is differentiable
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Correct answer: A, C, D
- Understand the sets
We have
So the domain has infinitely many real numbers, while the codomain has only elements.
- Option A: There are infinitely many functions from to
A function from to assigns to each point of one of the values in .
Since is an infinite set, the total number of functions from to is which is certainly infinite.
Hence, A is true.
- Option B: There are infinitely many strictly increasing functions from to
A strictly increasing function must satisfy: if in , then
But has only distinct values.
Now note that contains infinitely many points. In particular, any interval such as contains infinitely many points. On a strictly increasing function, distinct inputs must give distinct outputs, because if , then , so .
Thus a strictly increasing function on would need infinitely many distinct output values, but has only values.
So such a function cannot exist.
Hence the number of strictly increasing functions is , certainly not infinitely many.
Therefore, B is false.
- Option C: The number of continuous functions from to is at most 120
Let be continuous.
Since is a discrete subset of , and each component of is an interval, any continuous function from a connected interval into a discrete set must be constant on that interval.
So on each of the three connected components, must be constant:
- one constant value on ,
- one constant value on ,
- one constant value on .
Each constant can be chosen independently from , which has choices.
Therefore total number of continuous functions is
Since C is true.
- Option D: Every continuous function from to is differentiable
From the previous step, every continuous function is constant on each interval component of .
A constant function is differentiable everywhere on its interval, with derivative .
Now does not include the points , so we only need differentiability at points inside the open intervals , , and . On each such interval, the function is constant, hence differentiable.
Therefore, every continuous function from to is differentiable.
So D is true.
- Final conclusion
The true statements are:
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