To show that a function F is continuous on the real numbers (R), we need to show that for any point x in R, and for any sequence of points {x_n} that converges to x, the sequence {F(x_n)} also converges to F(x).View attachment 246769
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In this case, the function F is defined as f(x) = x^3/(1+x^2). We can show that this function is continuous on R as follows:
Let x be any point in R, and let {x_n} be a sequence of points in R that converges to x. We need to show that the sequence {F(x_n)} = {x_n^3/(1+x_n^2)} also converges to F(x) = x^3/(1+x^2).
To do this, we can use the fact that the sum, difference, product, and quotient of two continuous functions are also continuous. We know that the functions x^3 and 1+x^2 are both continuous on R, so their quotient, F(x) = x^3/(1+x^2), is also continuous on R.
Therefore, F is continuous on R.
As for uniform continuity, a function is uniformly continuous on a set if, given any positive number ε, there exists a positive number δ such that for all points x and y in the set, if the distance between x and y is less than δ, then the distance between f(x) and f(y) is also less than ε.
In this case, we can show that the function F is not uniformly continuous on R. To do this, we can consider the sequence of points {x_n} = {(-1)^n/n}, which oscillates between positive and negative values and approaches 0 as n approaches infinity.
For this sequence, we have that F(x_n) = x_n^3/(1+x_n^2) = (-1)^n/n^3/(1+1/n^2) = (-1)^n/n, which also oscillates between positive and negative values but does not approach any particular value as n approaches infinity.
Therefore, F is not uniformly continuous on R, because for any positive ε, we can find points x and y in R such that the distance between x and y is arbitrarily small (less than δ for any positive δ), but the distance between F(x) and F(y) is not less than ε.