Proving a known proof involving injection.

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trying to learn how to do proofs. So I have A=> B which is injective and E \subseteq B then prove f^-1(f(E)) = E.
So let x \in f^-1(f(E)) => thus f(x) \in f(E) => x\in E

So I have proved that x is a point within E, a subset of A, to me I think I am missing something and have not proved f^-1(f(E)) = E.

any suggestions?
 
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You need to do a similar argument in the opposite direction. Take x in E and show

it is in f-1f(E). You have then showed, for the two sets:

E is contained in f-1f(E).

and

f-1f(E) is contained in E.

This is the standard way of showing equality of sets.
 
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