Select the [b]Default to Natural Domain of f [/b]checkbox. Then select [b]Show Inverse Relation. [/b]Is this [b]inverse relation [/b](whose equation is [math]x=sin\left(y\right)[/math]) also a function? Explain why or why not.
No, it is not. In order for a relation to be a function, each input can have only one output. Yet in order for the [b]inverse relation[/b] to be a function, [b]each output [/b](of the [b]original function[/b]) can only have 1 input that maps to it. Yet this clearly isn't the case for the function [math]y=sin\left(x\right)[/math] because the [b]output[/b] 1/2, for example, has more than one input (angle) (ex's: [math]\frac{\pi}{6}[/math] and [math]\frac{5\pi}{6}[/math]) that map to it. (In fact, there exist infinitely many angles whose sine ratio is 1/2.) Therefore, the [b]inverse relation[/b] is not a function.