Q.State whether the following relations are functions or not. If it is a function check for one-to-oneness and ontoness. If it is not a function, state why?
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Definition. A relation is a function if (i) every has some image with , and (ii) that image is unique: . Then ; is the image of , is a pre-image of . The range is always co-domain . Only the domain side is required to be fully, uniquely covered -- how many pre-images a co-domain point has, or whether it has any, are separate questions (injectivity/surjectivity below).
Representing a function: tabularly (a list of argument/value pairs), graphically (plot with the Vertical Line Test: a curve is a function's graph iff every vertical line meets it at exactly one point), or analytically (a formula, whose natural domain is wherever that formula is actually defined -- found by excluding zero denominators, requiring even-root radicands , etc., often via a sign-chart over intervals cut out by the critical points). Functions may also be piecewise (different formula on different sub-intervals).
Named elementary functions: identity (), constant (and the zero function as its special case), modulus , signum (with ), floor (always rounds down, even for negatives) and ceiling (always rounds up) -- the last two are "step functions". …
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