Verifying De Morgan's laws for two given fuzzy sets

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How does one show graphically or otherwise that two fuzzy sets A and B with membership functions $1/(1+2x)$ and $1/\sqrt{1+2x}$ respectively, satisfy De Morgan's laws?

This is a question from Neural Fuzzy Systems by Chin-Teng Lin and C. S. George Lee.I was unable to find a solution to this.Could someone try to help me with this?

Click to view graphs of the two membership functions with red and blue representing those of A,B respectively. X axis represents x and Y axis,the membership function

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I guess that the univrse is $[0,\infty]$ because the membership function has to be between $0$ and $ 1$.

Since $$f_A=\frac1{1+2x}\leq f_B=\frac1{\sqrt{1+2x}},\ \text{ if } x\geq 0$$ we have that

$$f_{A\cup B}=\max(f_A,f_B)=\frac1{\sqrt{1+2x}}=f_{B}$$ and then

$$f_{\overline {A\cup B}}=1-f_B.$$

Then $f_{\overline A}=1-f_A$ and $f_{\overline B}=1-f_B$. So $f_{\overline A}\geq f_{\overline B}$ and $$f_{\overline A\cap\overline B}=\min(f_{\overline A},f_{\overline B})=f_{\overline B}=1-f_B.$$

That is, $$f_{\overline {A\cup B}}=f_{\overline A\cap\overline B}$$ according to De Morgan's law.