Solution

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A suitable continuous function is
For and ,
All these arguments lie in . Its image is a real interval by the continuous image of a real interval result, and it is unbounded both above and below. Given any real , choose two of the displayed points with function values on opposite sides of , then apply the intermediate value theorem on the segment joining them. Hence the image is all of . A monotone example would not suffice here; the oscillation gives both directions of unboundedness near the same missing endpoint.

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