The intermediate value theorem is an easy consequence of the basic properties of connected sets : the preservation of connectedness under continuous functions and the characterization of connected subsets of ! as intervals ( " see below for details " ) " ."
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The De Bruijn ErdQs theorem may also be used to answer a question of Fred Galvin concerning an intermediate value theorem for graph chromatic numbers : for every two finite numbers, and every graph with chromatic number, there is a subgraph of with chromatic number.
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For example, the intermediate value theorem for functions from the reals to the reals is provable in RCA 0 ( Simpson 2009, p . 87 ), while the Bolzano / Weirstrass theorem is equivalent to ACA 0 over RCA 0 ( Simpson 2009, p . 34 ).
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At the precalculus level, the function f : x \ mapsto a ^ x can be given a precise definition only for rational values of " x " ( assuming the existence of qth roots of positive real numbers, an application of the Intermediate Value Theorem ).
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But, in the absence of any intuition about where the zero might lie, a " guess and check " method might narrow the possibilities to a reasonably small interval by appealing to the intermediate value theorem . ) The method will usually converge, provided this initial guess is close enough to the unknown zero, and that.
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Or wondering about when you hang a towel on a towel bar and it falls off to one side, and then you hang it back up and it falls off the other side, if you applied the intermediate value theorem calculation could you figure out where the middle point would be for the towel to stay put.
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By the intermediate value theorem, every family of such hyperplanes contains at least one hyperplane that bisects the bounded object : at one extreme translation, no volume of is on the positive side, and at the other extreme translation, all of's volume is on the positive side, so in between there must be a translation that has half of's volume on the positive side.
