Identifying Functions

What is the definition of a function?

• Has inputs and outputs

• Inputs have different outputs every time

• x-values and

  y-values

• Every input has only one output

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• Function
• Not a Function

Is this is a function or not a function?

• Function
• Not a Function

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Is this a function or not a function?

• Function
• Not a Function

• Yes
• No

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Which set of ordered pairs is a function?

• {(9,5), (10,5), (9,-5), (10,-5)}

• {(3,4), (4,-3), (7,4), (3, 8)}

• {(6,-5), (7, -3), (8, -1), (9, 1)}

• {(2, -2), (5, 9), (5, -7), (1, 4)}

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Is this graph a function or not a function? 

• Function
• Not a Function

Is the relation a function? Why.

• Yes, because the x-value 11 has two y-values pair with it.
• Yes, because each x-value has only one y-value paired with it.
• No, because the x-value 11 has two y-values pair with it.
• No, because each x-value has only one y-value paired with it.

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• Function
• Not a Function

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How do you use the vertical line test?

• Draw vertical lines through your graph. If any of the vertical lines you draw intersects the graph more than once then the graph is not the graph of a function.

• Draw vertical lines through your graph. If any of the vertical lines you draw intersects the graph more than once, then it is a function.