Solution

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A subset is dense when every nonempty open set meets it, equivalently its closure is the whole space. Baire category theorem says a complete metric space has dense intersection for every countable family of open dense sets. Here
so Baire makes dense. It need not be open: enumerate the rationals and take , giving the irrationals. Nor need be nonempty: take and for .

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