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Lab Manual XII (Setting On 25-06-09) 1 - 10.Pmd 2

This document provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate a function that is one-to-one but not onto. Students are instructed to paste plastic strips with nails on either side of a cardboard and connect the nails to represent a function from the set {a, b} to the set {1, 2, 3}. By observing that each element in the domain {a, b} maps to a unique element in the range {1, 2, 3}, but not all elements in the range are mapped to, it can be shown that the function is one-to-one but not onto.

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Lab Manual XII (Setting On 25-06-09) 1 - 10.Pmd 2

This document provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate a function that is one-to-one but not onto. Students are instructed to paste plastic strips with nails on either side of a cardboard and connect the nails to represent a function from the set {a, b} to the set {1, 2, 3}. By observing that each element in the domain {a, b} maps to a unique element in the range {1, 2, 3}, but not all elements in the range are mapped to, it can be shown that the function is one-to-one but not onto.

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Activity 4

OBJECTIVE MATERIAL REQUIRED


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

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION
1. Paste a plastic strip on the left hand side of the cardboard and fix two nails
in it as shown in the Fig. 4.1. Name the nails as a and b.
2. Paste another strip on the right hand side of the cardboard and fix three
nails on it as shown in the Fig. 4.2. Name the nails on the right strip as
1, 2 and 3.
3. Join nails on the left strip to the nails on the right strip as shown in the Fig. 4.3.

DEMONSTRATION
1. Take the set X = {a, b}
2. Take the set Y = {1, 2, 3}.
3. Join elements of X to the elements of Y as shown in Fig. 4.3.
OBSERVATION
1. The image of the element a of X in Y is ______________.

The image of the element b of X in Y is ______________.

So, the Fig. 4.3 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 the element 1 of Y in X __________ (exists/does not
exist). So, the function is __________ (onto/not onto).

Thus, Fig. 4.3 represents a function which is _________ but not onto.

APPLICATION
This activity can be used to demonstrate the concept of one-one but not onto
function.

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