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Determnine if each table shown below represents a function or not.

Determnine if each table shown below represents a function or not.-example-1

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Answer:

Table 1 does not represent a function.

Table 2 does not represent a function.

Explanation:

Table 1

Input (x) 1 3 5 5 9

Output (y) 7 16 19 20 28

We know that a function is a relation where each input or x-value of the X set has a unique y-value or output of the Y set.

In other words, we can not have duplicated inputs as there should be only 1 output for each input.

Table 1 indicates that x = 5 is repeated twice. In other words, the input x = 5 is duplicated and we know that we can not have duplicated inputs as there should be only 1 output for each input.

Therefore, table 1 does not represent a function.

Table 2

Input (x) 0.5 7 7 12 15

Output (y) 1 15 10 23 30

We know that a function is a relation where each input or x-value of the X set has a unique y-value or output of the Y set.

In other words, we can not have duplicated inputs as there should be only 1 output for each input.

Table 2 indicates that x = 7 is repeated twice. In other words, the input x = 7 is duplicated and we know that we can not have duplicated inputs as there should be only 1 output for each input.

Therefore, table 2 does not represent a function.

Conclusion:

We have concluded that both tables do not represent the function.

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