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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ib Paper 3 4F i Solution by
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True. Fix a point of a nonempty connected open set and let be its path-connected component. Each point of the open set has a small Euclidean ball contained in it. A ball is convex and path-connected, so each such ball lies entirely in one path component. All path components are therefore open, and the complement of is open as well. If the complement were nonempty, these two open sets would disconnect the original set. Thus is the whole set. In fact the joining paths may be chosen polygonal.
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