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What are the possible values of x and y for two distinct points, (5, –2) and (x, y), to represent a function?



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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
x can be any real number except 5.
y can be any real number.

Reason: a relation is a function only if each x-value has a single y-value. If x = 5 and y ≠ −2 you would have two different outputs for x = 5; if x = 5 and y = −2 the points wouldn't be distinct.