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Using the vertical line test, does the following relation represent a function?

Using the vertical line test, does the following relation represent a function?-example-1
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Explanation: For our relation, we have the x-values as inputs and the y-values as outputs. All we need to know is that for a relation to be a function for each input there will be just one and no more than one corresponding output, if so, it is not a function.

Step 1: Let's take a look at our graph to visualise the relation between inputs (x-values) and outputs (y-values)

As we can see above, for x=-4 we have the output 3, for x=6

Using the vertical line test, does the following relation represent a function?-example-1
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