Every ball in a normed space is convex

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Prove that if VV is a normed vector space, f∈Vf \in V, and r>0r > 0, then the open ball B(f,r)B(f, r) centered at ff with radius rr is convex.

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Prove that any ball in a normed space XX is convex.

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Prove that the unit ball (open or closed) is convex in every normed linear space.

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