SOLUTION: Consider the function whose input value is the time of day and whose corresponding output value is temperature at the time of day, rounded to the nearest degree. Is this a one-to-o

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Question 884527: Consider the function whose input value is the time of day and whose corresponding output value is temperature at the time of day, rounded to the nearest degree. Is this a one-to-one function?
Answer by lwsshak3(11628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Consider the function whose input value is the time of day and whose corresponding output value is temperature at the time of day, rounded to the nearest degree. Is this a one-to-one function?
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By definition, each input(x) of a one-to-one function must have a different output(y)
Each time of the day may have may have the same temperature, therefore, given function is not one-to-one.

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