SOLUTION: - So why would (6,0),(-3,2), (6,4), (-1,1) not be a function? what was the corrections? So what did i do wrong? please help me?

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Question 687637: - So why would (6,0),(-3,2), (6,4), (-1,1) not be a function? what was the corrections? So what did i do wrong?
please help me?

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Notice how x = 6 maps to both y = 0 and y = 4 at the same time.

Each x value is only supposed to map to EXACTLY ONE y value in order for it to be a function.

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