Solution

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Suppose for contradiction that the continuous image of a connected space is disconnected. Then there are disjoint nonempty sets , open in the subspace topology on , with . By continuity, and are disjoint open subsets of ; by surjectivity both are nonempty, and their union is . This is a separation of a topological space of , contradicting that is a connected space. Hence is connected.

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