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Compare the graphs and determine which one could be the graph of a square root function.(1 point)

A coordinate plane's axes range from negative 3 to 3, both by 1-unit increments. An S-shaped curve is plotted passing through 3 marked points.
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A coordinate plane's x-axis ranges from negative 2 to 6 and its y-axis ranges from negative 2 to 4, both by 1-unit increments. A curve is plotted in the first quadrant. It passes through 3 marked points.
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A coordinate plane's x-axis ranges from negative 3 to 3 and its y-axis ranges from negative 1 to 4, both by 1-unit increments. A concave up parabola is drawn passing through 3 marked points in the first and second quadrants.
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A coordinate plane's axes range from negative 4 to 4, both by 1-unit increments. A straight line is plotted passing through 3 marked points in the first and third quadrants.
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The second graph.

Reason: a square root function starts at a left endpoint and increases to the right while flattening out (concave down) and lies only on one side of its domain endpoint. The second graph shows a curve in the first quadrant with that shape. The S-shaped curve (1), the U-shaped parabola (3), and the straight line (4) do not match a square root graph.