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Activity 3: Cardboard, Nails, Strings, Adhesive and Plastic Strips

This document describes an activity to demonstrate a function that is not one-to-one but is onto. The activity involves pasting plastic strips with nails on either side of a cardboard and joining the nails to represent a correspondence between elements of two sets. Set X has elements 1, 2, 3 and set Y has elements a and b. By joining the nails as shown in the figure, it represents a function that is not one-to-one as elements 1 and 3 in set X both map to element a in set Y, but the function is onto as every element in set Y has a pre-image in set X.

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Activity 3: Cardboard, Nails, Strings, Adhesive and Plastic Strips

This document describes an activity to demonstrate a function that is not one-to-one but is onto. The activity involves pasting plastic strips with nails on either side of a cardboard and joining the nails to represent a correspondence between elements of two sets. Set X has elements 1, 2, 3 and set Y has elements a and b. By joining the nails as shown in the figure, it represents a function that is not one-to-one as elements 1 and 3 in set X both map to element a in set Y, but the function is onto as every element in set Y has a pre-image in set X.

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Activity 3

OBJECTIVE MATERIAL REQUIRED


To demonstrate a function which is Cardboard, nails, strings, adhesive
not one-one but is onto. and plastic strips.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION
1. Paste a plastic strip on the left hand side of the cardboard and fix three nails
on it as shown in the Fig.3.1. Name the nails on the strip as 1, 2 and 3.
2. Paste another strip on the right hand side of the cardboard and fix two nails in
the plastic strip as shown in Fig.3.2. Name the nails on the strip as a and b.
3. Join nails on the left strip to the nails on the right strip as shown in Fig. 3.3.

DEMONSTRATION
1. Take the set X = {1, 2, 3}
2. Take the set Y = {a, b}
3. Join (correspondence) elements of X to the elements of Y as shown in Fig. 3.3

OBSERVATION
1. The image of the element 1 of X in Y is __________.
The image of the element 2 of X in Y is __________.

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The image of the element 3 of X in Y is __________.

So, Fig. 3.3 represents a __________ .


2. Every element in X has a _________ image in Y. So, the function is
_________(one-one/not one-one).
3. The pre-image of each element of Y in X _________ (exists/does not exist).
So, the function is ________ (onto/not onto).

APPLICATION NOTE
Demonstrate the same
This activity can be used to demonstrate the
activity by changing the
concept of one-one and onto function.
number of the elements of
the sets X and Y.

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