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Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati


Single Variable Calculus
Tutorial Sheet-1
July-November 2025

1. Find the supremum and the infimum of the following sets:


(−1)n
 
(a) 1 − :n∈N
n
 
1
(b) 1 − : n ∈ N
n
 
1 1
(c) − : n, m ∈ N
n m
 
m
(d) : m, n ∈ N
m+n
2. Let A and B be two bounded subsets of R. The sum of A and B is defined by

A + B = {a + b : a ∈ A, b ∈ B}.

Show that

(a) inf(A + B) = inf(A) + inf(B)


(b) sup(A + B) = sup(A) + sup(B)

3. Let A be a nonempty bounded subset of R. For a real number x, we define

xA = {xa : a ∈ A}.

Prove that:

(a) If x > 0, then inf(xA) = x · inf(A) and sup(xA) = x · sup(A).


(b) If x < 0, then inf(xA) = x · sup(A) and sup(xA) = x · inf(A).

4. Let q1 and q2 be two distinct real numbers. Then show that there exists an irrational
number between them.

5. Use the Archimedean property to show that


\  1 1
− , = {0}.
n∈N
n n

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