Precalculus (6th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Inverse, Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions - 4.1 Inverse Functions - 4.1 Exercises - Page 406: 3

Answer

one-to-one

Work Step by Step

One of the condition that a function $y=f(x)$ having an inverse is that the function need to be "one-to-one". This means that for each $x$, there is only one corresponding $y$. Thus the answer is "one-to-one".
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