Solution

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Let and . This is continuous. It is onto: given , choose an integer shift bringing into , with the corresponding possible sign change in ; the resulting representative lies in .
Two representatives in are in the same orbit only if their first coordinates differ by an integer. An interior point can therefore be equivalent only to itself. Distinct boundary representatives have first coordinates zero and one, and the iterate identifies exactly with . Thus the fibres of are precisely the equivalence classes defining the Möbius band .
The rectangle is compact, and the target is Hausdorff by part (i). Applying part (a)(v) to therefore yields
The compactness argument supplies continuity of the inverse without requiring a discontinuous choice of one representative per orbit.

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