Solution

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True. Part (v) supplies one isolated point . Since is open, is closed and therefore complete. It is nonempty when has at least two points, so part (v) applied to this subspace supplies an isolated point . Because , a sufficiently small ball showing that is isolated in the subspace also avoids ; hence is isolated in .

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