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Use the vertical line test to identify graphs in which y is a function of x ?

a.
b.
d.
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a).

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Now let us draw a vertical line on the given curve, we get

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Clearly the vertical line passes through two points on the given curve.

Hence y is not a function of x.

Step 2

b.

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Now let us draw a vertical line on the given curve, we get

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Clearly the vertical line passes through only one point on the given curve.

Therefore y is a function of x.

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