document.write( "Question 1037651: Sketch a graph of a function f that satisfies the following conditions:
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document.write( "The red curve is the graph of a function because it passes \r\n" );
document.write( "the vertical line test.  That is, there are no places where \r\n" );
document.write( "a vertical line crosses the graph more than once.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It does not have an inverse because it does not pass the\r\n" );
document.write( "horizontal line test, as we can see because the green\r\n" );
document.write( "horizontal line crosses the curve in two points.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It has f(1) > 0 since the y-coordinate is 12 where x=1, and\r\n" );
document.write( "12 is certainly greater than 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "f(x) > x  at all values of x because it is always above the \r\n" );
document.write( "blue line, whose equation is y = x.\r\n" );
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