Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/ii/paper-2/2h/a/solution

The sum is nonempty because and are nonempty. It is a bounded set: if and , then .
To prove that it is a closed set, let be a convergent sequence with . By the Heine-Borel theorem, is a compact set, so has a convergent subsequence . Then
Since is closed, , and hence . Therefore is nonempty, closed and bounded, so .

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