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If you were to measure a person once a year, every year, from the ages of 10 to 25 would your ordered pairs of age and height represent a function?

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Answer: Yes, it would represent a function because it wouldn’t decrease. It would have a steady correlation.

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Answer: Hello there!

A function is a mathematical construction, where you put a number, the input, and the function gives another number, the output.

A function is defined with this rule:

an input number can't have more than one output number associated.

The ordered pairs of age and height, where the age is the input, can represent a function, because if you only measure once a year, for every age there is only one height associated. Then these pairs represent a function.

If you took the other way, where the input is the height and the output is the age, this pairs does not necessarily represent a function, because at two different ages you could have the same height, this means that one value of height has more than one age associated, and this does not represent a function.

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