Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Function Rules in Math


Introduction to function rules in math:

An association f from x to y will be called as a function if every element x is associated to a unique element.  Here x and y are two non-empty sets.  x is called the domain of f and the set y is called the range of f.
Understanding Elementary Statistics Problems is always challenging for me but thanks to all math help websites to help me out. Now let us see more rules to satisfy a particular definition of a function.

More Definitions on Function Rules in Math:

Definition 1: A function f from x to y is called an into function, if some elements of co-domain are not images.

Example: Let x = {1, 2, 3, 4} and y = {a, b, c}.

Therefore By f: x `|->`  y, we have {(1, a), (2, b), (3, b), (4, a)}

This is a function but ‘c’ is not associated.  Hence it is called an into function.

Definition 2: A function f from x to y is called an onto function if all the elements of y co-domain y are images.

That is f(x) = y.

Ex: Let A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {4, 5, 6}.

Then f: A `->` B are given by {(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)}.

implies f (A) = B.

Therefore f is called as an onto function.Is this topic adding exponents hard for you? Watch out for my coming posts.

More Definitions on Function Rules in Math:

Definition 3:  A function f from x to y is called a one – one function of if different elements of domain x will have different images.  That is x1? x2, f(x1) ? f(x2).

Ex:  Let x = {1, 2} and y = {a, b}.

Then f: x`->` y are given by {(1, a), (2, b)}.

Here 1 ? 2 and their images a ? b.

Hence it is called an one – one function.

Definition 4: A function f from x toy is called a one – one function if two or more elements of domains x are associated with one element of co-domain y.

Definition 5: A function f from x to y is called a bisection if it is both one – one and onto.

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