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If you switch the domain and range of any function, will the resulting relation always be a function? Explain your answer with examples.
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No, it won't be. A function is determined by two collections A and B and an assignment of a unique element of B to each element of A. If you let the function be f(x) = x², and let the domain be -1 to +1, then the range will be 0 to +1. But if you swap the domain and the range over, you'll have each element of the new domain being mapped onto two elements of the new range - so it's no longer a mapping to a unique element.
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