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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 2 4G a Solution by
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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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