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Example: Sets of Ordered Pairs Not Representing a Mathematical Function
Consider the relation given by the set of ordered pairs: . To determine if this relation is a mathematical function, we inspect the coordinates. The -value is matched with two different -values ( and ), and the -value is matched with two different -values ( and ). Because an -value corresponds to more than one -value, this relation is not a function. The domain is and the range is .
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