Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

-- Mathematics - Section B1

Chapter

Continuity and Differentiability

Question:

At which points the function $f(x)=\frac{x}{[x]}$, where [.] is greatest integer function, is discontinuous

Options:

only positive integers

all integer and (0, 1)

all rational numbers

none of these

Correct Answer:

all integer and (0, 1)

Explanation:

(i) When 0 ≤ x < 1

f(x) doesn’t exist as [x] = 0 here.

(ii) Also $\underset{x→I+}{\lim}f(x)$ and $\underset{x→I-}{\lim}f(x)$ does not exist.

Hence f(x) is discontinuous at all integers and also in (0, 1)