If f is Lipschitz with constant K, then $|f(E)|_e \leq K |E|_e$ for EVERY subset E of the domain

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Let $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ be measurable and $f: A \to \mathbb{R}$ be a Lipschitz function with constant K, i.e., for any x, y in A, $|f(x) - f(y)| \leq K|x - y|$. Prove that for any $E \subseteq A,$ $|f(E)|_e \leq K|E|_e$.

I can directly use the fact that $|f(x) - f(y)| \leq K|x - y|$ to show the inequality holds when E is an interval, and use the interval case to show that this is true for open sets as well, but it's not clear where to go from there. I know that for any $\epsilon > 0,$ any set E can be covered by countably many closed intervals $Q_j$ so that $|E|_e \leq \sum_{j=1}^\infty |Q_j| \leq |E|_e + \epsilon$, and that an open set within $\epsilon$ of E's exterior measure exists as well, but the problem is that these approximate from outside of E and possibly outside of A, and I can't work out the right way to "extend" f out to the intervals or open sets and be sure that the result is still a Lipschitz function. I think it would be best if I could show the result holds for closed sets and work upward instead, but I'm not quite sure how to do that, either.

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Nice statment of what you've tried. It looks to me like $f$ can be extended to all of $\mathbb {R}$ with the same Lipschitz constant. First, extend $f$ to $\bar {A};$ the extension is the same as for any uniformly continuous function on $A.$ Then $\mathbb {R}\setminus \bar {A}$ is open, hence is the pairwise disjoint union of open intervals $I_1, I_2, \dots.$ On any $I_n = (a_n,b_n),$ just connect $(a_n,f(a_n)),(b_n,f(b_n))$ with a line segment. There's the desired extension, and it would seem you're good to go. (I'm not sure why $A$ needs to be measurable though. Where does that come in?)