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The Many Faces of Relations Math 8 Unit 4 Task 1. Complete a survey of the students in your class. Expand the following table to include a row for every student and gather the requested information from your classmate. Class Survey (see back of paper to actually conduct the survey) Student # (this is not your school ID)

# of letters in First name

# of letters in Last name

Day of the month you were born

Number of Pets

1 2 3 2. How many different types of ordered pairs can be created from this survey data? Explain your answer. HINT: One type of ordered pair you could create from the information you collected in your survey is (Student #, # of letters in First name).

3. If the first term of each ordered pair is the independent variable or domain and the second is the dependent or range, then which of the ordered pairs have you identified in question 2 are relations? Which are functions? Explain your answers.


Student #

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

# of letters in first name

# of letters in Last name

Day of the month you were born

Number of Pets


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