Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2013

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    Let\[f(xy)=f(x)\cdot f(y)\]for all\[x,\,\,y\in R\]. If\[f(1)=2\]and\[f(4)=4\], then\[f(4)\]equal to

    A) \[4\]                                     

    B) \[1\]

    C) \[\frac{1}{2}\]                   

    D)        \[8\]

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    We have\[f(xy)=f(x),\,\,f(y)\]all\[x,\,\,y\in R\] Putting\[x=y=1\], we get \[f(1)=f(1)f(1)\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[f(1)[1-f(1)]=0\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[f(1)=1\]                                            \[[\because \,\,f(1)\ne 0]\] Now,\[f(1)=2\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(1+h)-f(1)}{h}=2\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[f(1)\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(h)-1}{h}=2\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(1)f(h)-(f)1}{h}=2\][using\[f(1)=1\]]? (i) \[\Rightarrow \]\[\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(h)-1}{h}=2\] Now\[f(4)=\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(4+h)-f(4)}{h}\] \[=\underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(4)\cdot f(h)-f(4)}{h}\] \[=\left\{ \underset{h\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{f(h)-1}{h} \right\}\cdot f(4)=2f(4)\] {from (i)}


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