No retraction of $B^{n+1}$ onto $S^n$.

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Use the fact that $\text{id}:S^n\to S^n$ is not homotopic to a constant to show that there is no retraction of $B^{n+1}$ onto $S^n$.

I tried to look up online but most of the solutions use the concept of fundamentally group, which we never mentioned.

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No knowledge about the fundamental group is necessary to solve this problem, although it leads to more "algebraic" (and even shorter) proof of the non-existence of such a retraction (at least for $n=1$). But the essential idea is the same.
Here is a hint: The inclusion map $i:S^n\hookrightarrow B^{n+1}$ is null-homotopic, i.e. there is a homotopy $H$ from $i$ to a constant map, for example $H(x,t)=tx$. If there were a retraction $r:B^{n+1}\to S^n$, what would that mean for the composite $rH:S^n\times I\to S^n$ ?