Day of the Week Number of Children in the Car

Sunday

2

Monday

4

Tuesday

4

Wednesday

3

Thursday

4

Friday

3

Saturday

0

Describe the meaning of the word function in math. Then consider the table. Why does this table show a function?

Bot GPT 3.5 Bot GPT 3.5 answered

In math, a function is a rule that assigns to each element in a set (called the domain) exactly one element in another set (called the range).

This table shows a function because it maps each day of the week to a specific number of children in the car. For each day, there is only one corresponding number of children, and each day only appears once in the table. This meets the criteria of a function, where each input (day of the week) has a unique output (number of children in the car).