Solution 0.4.13.1.

  1. \(f\) is not injective. To prove this, we must simply find two different elements of the domain which map to the same element of the codomain. Since \(f(\{1\}) = 1\) and \(f(\{2\}) = 1\text{,}\) we see that \(f\) is not injective.

  2. \(f\) is not surjective. The largest subset of \(A\) is \(A\) itself, and \(|A| = 10\text{.}\) So no natural number greater than 10 will ever be an output.

  3. \(f\inv(1) = \{\{1\}, \{2\}, \{3\}, \ldots \{10\}\}\) (the set of all the singleton subsets of \(A\)).

  4. \(f\inv(0) = \{\emptyset\}\text{.}\) Note, it would be wrong to write \(f\inv(0) = \emptyset\) - that would claim that there is no input which has 0 as an output.

  5. \(f\inv(12) = \emptyset\text{,}\) since there are no subsets of \(A\) with cardinality 12.

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