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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2015 2 c i Solution by
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The two open balls are disjoint: a common point would have distances to their centres summing to less than two, contradicting the triangle inequality. Both are nonempty and relatively open, and they cover the union. They therefore give a separation, so the union is neither connected nor path-connected.
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