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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 4 4G a Solution by
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The sets and are relatively open in the subspace topology on . They are disjoint and their union is . If both were nonempty, they would be a separation of , contradicting its connectedness. Therefore at least one is empty, and lies entirely in or entirely in . The assertion also holds for empty .
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