To determine whether the given set of ordered pairs represents a function, we need to check if each input (or x-coordinate) is associated with exactly one output (or y-coordinate).
The ordered pairs you provided are:
- (1, -2)
- (1, 5)
- (17, -8)
Here we can see that the input \(1\) corresponds to two different outputs: \(-2\) and \(5\). This means that for the input \(1\), there is more than one output.
Since a function must have exactly one output for each input, the relation represented by these ordered pairs is not a function.