Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

-- Mathematics - Section B1

Chapter

Continuity and Differentiability

Question:

If $f(x) = sgn(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\frac{|x|}{x}, & x \neq 0 \\ 0, & x=0\end{array}\right.$ and g(x) = f(f(x)), then at x = 0  g(x), is

Options:

continuous and differentiable

continuous but not differentiable

differentiable but not continuous

neither continuous nor differentiable

Correct Answer:

neither continuous nor differentiable

Explanation:

We have,

$f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{rr} 1, & x>0 \\ 0, & x=0 \\ -1, & x<0 \end{array}\right.$

Clearly, it is neither continuous nor differentiable at x = 0.

Now,

$g(x)=f(f(x))=\left\{\begin{array}{rr} f(1), & x>0 \\ f(0), & x=0 \\ f(-1), & x<0 \end{array}\right.$

$\Rightarrow g(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{rr} 1, & x>0 \\ 0, & x=0 \\ -1, & x<0 \end{array}\right.$

⇒ g(x) = f(x)

Hence, g(x) is neither continuous nor differentiable at x = 0.