Let A = $\left\{1,2,3,.....,10\right\}andf:A\to A$ be defined as

$f\left(k\right)=\{\begin{array}{cc}\hfill k+1\hfill & \hfill ifkisodd\hfill \\ \hfill k\hfill & \hfill ifkiseven\hfill \end{array}$            

Then the number of possible functions g : A ® A such that gof = f is:

 

R₁ = { (1, 1) (1, 2), (1, 3)., (1, 20), (2, 2), (2, 4). (2, 20), (3, 3), (3, 6), . (3, 18),
(4, 4), (4, 8), . (4, 20), (5, 5), (5, 10), (5, 15), (5, 20), (6, 6), (6, 12), (6, 18), (7. 7),
(7, 14), (8, 8), (8, 16), (9, 9), (9, 18), (10, 10), (10, 20), (11, 11), (12, 12)

$gof\left(x\right)=\{\begin{array}{cc}\hfill f\left(x\right),\hfill & \hfill f\left(x\right)<0\hfill \\ \hfill f\left(x\right),\hfill & \hfill f\left(x\right)>0\hfill \end{array}$

$=\{\begin{array}{lll}{e}^{lnx}=x\hfill & \left(0,1\right)\hfill & e^{-x}\hfill \\ \left(-\infty ,0\right)\hfill & lnx\hfill & \left(1,\infty \right)\hfill \end{array}$

Therefore, gof (x) is many one and into

  $?$  R is symmetric relation

⇒   (y, x) ∈ R V (x, y) ∈ R

(x, y) ∈ R ⇒ 2x = 3y and (y, x) ∈ R ⇒ 3x = 2y

Which holds only for (0, 0)

Which does not belongs to R.

∴ Value of n = 0

f is increasing function

x < 5x < 7x

f (x) < f (5x) < f (7x)

  $\frac{f\left(x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}<\frac{f\left(5x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}<\frac{f\left(7x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}$           

$\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\frac{f\left(x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}<\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\frac{f\left(5x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}<\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\frac{f\left(7x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}$             

-> $1<\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\frac{f\left(5x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}<1$ $\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\frac{f\left(5x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}=1$

$\underset{x\to \infty }{lim}\left(\frac{f\left(5x\right)}{f\left(x\right)}-1\right)=0$            

$f\left(x\right)=\frac{x-1}{x+1}\Rightarrow f\left(f\left(x\right)\right)=\frac{\frac{x-1}{x+1}-1}{\frac{x-1}{x+1}+1}=-\frac{1}{x}$

$f^3\left(x\right)=-\frac{x+1}{x-1}\Rightarrow f^4\left(x\right)=\frac{\frac{x-1}{x+1}+1}{\frac{x-1}{x+1}-1}=x$

$So,f^6\left(6\right)+f^7\left(7\right)=f^2\left(6\right)+f^3\left(7\right)$

= $-\frac{1}{6}-\frac{7+1}{7-1}=-\frac{9}{6}=-\frac{3}{2}$