Blog Post #2 Miles Van Blarcum

Part a:

1. The Washington Post website
2. Functions are relationships in which the input has only one output.
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2014/09/09/two-graphs-that-raise-cautions-about-bringing-the-olympics-to-d-c/     The SECOND graph shows the amount of jobs created when an area hosted an Olympic Games, as compared to the year in which the games took place.
4. This graph shows that for each Olympic games, there was one certain number of jobs created.
5. Although there is 1 output for every input, the function is nonlinear and does not have an average rate of change.  
6. N/A
7. The function is not linear because there in no constant Average Rate of Change. There is no consistency between intervals 
8. If J is equal to the jobs created, and x is the year in which the games were held, the equation would be f(x)= J

Part b:

1. A relationship is not a function when there are more than one output for every input. 
2. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/postage.html  The BLUE line showing the price of postage stamps since the 1800's.
3. The meaning of the relationship is the price of the postage stamp in comparison to the year.
4. I know the relationship is not a function because it does not pass the vertical line test. Therefore, it has more than one output for every input. There are more than one stamp price per year.

Part c:

1. After completing your blog entry, thoughtfully and critically comment (praise and/or critique) on the posts of members in your blog group.