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Let f : A → B and g : B → C denote two functions. If the function gof : A → C is a surjection and g is an injection, then function f is ______.

(a)injection

(b)surjection

(c)bijection

(d)none of these

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Look both $f : A \rightarrow B$ and $g : B \rightarrow C $ are functions

for $f$, we can never be sure of injection, but for surjection you have to observe that, is it possible for some $a \in A$ to map to some $c \in C$ without mapping onto any $b \in B$ ?. surely this is not possible otherwise there would have been a $b \in B$ such that for $a \in A$, $ (a,b) \notin f$ and $(b,c) \in g$ we would have $(a,c) \notin fog$, which is not possible as $fog$ is surjective. Therefore we can conclude that $f$ is surjective.
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