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Is the following relation a function?

Is the following relation a function?-example-1
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Answer:

no....

A circle is a curve. It can be generated by functions, but it's not a function itself.

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A circle is a set of points in the plane. A function is a mapping from one set to another, so they're completely different kinds of things, and a circle cannot be a function.

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