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Please help me solve this question. Will make you the

Please help me solve this question. Will make you the-example-1
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The relation you have shown is not a function.

In order to be a function, a relation's domain must be continuous in that no x-value is not repeated in any of the points. Since the first two points of the relation are (5,1) and (5,3), you can see that they have the same x-value, meaning that this is not a function.

One quick way you could test this is to quickly sketch a graph and use the vertical line test to see if the relation in question is a function. If it cross the vertical line once in all places, it is a function - if it crosses the vertical line more than once in any place, it is not a function.

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