Students often refer to NCERT Class 9 Advanced Maths Solutions Chapter 3 Relations and Functions Ex 3.3 to verify their answers.
Advanced Maths Class 9 Exercise 3.3 Solutions
Class 9 Advanced Maths Ex 3.3 Solutions
Question 1.
Which of the following relations are functions? Justify your answer.

Solution:
Core Rule for Functions:
A relation is a function if every domain element maps to exactly one codomain element.
(a) Function
Justification: Every domain element maps to exactly one output.
Mappings: 2 → 0, – 1 → 0, -2 → 0, 3 → 1.
(b) Not a Function
Justification: Element -1 has no corresponding output value.
Reason: Every input must map to an output.
(c) Function
Justification: Every input maps to exactly one output value.
Mappings: 1 → 1, 1.2 → 1, 1.3 → 1, 1.9 → 1, 2.5 → 2.
(d) Not a Function
Justification: Element 5 maps to three different outputs.
Outputs for 5: Maps to 7, 5 and 2.
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Question 2.
Which of the following relations from A = {3, 5, 7, 9} to B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} are functions from A to B?
(a) R1 = {(3, 2), (5, 4), (7, 5), (9, 5)}
(b) R2 = {(1, 3), (3, 5), (5, 7)}
(c) R3 = {(2, 3), (2, 5), (2, 7), (3, 5), (3, 7), (5, 7)}
(d) R4 = {(3, 3), (5, 5)}
Solution:
(a) R1 = {(3, 2), (5, 4), (7, 5), (9, 5)}
Check elements of A:
- 3 has one image 2
- 5 has one image 4
- 7 has one image 5
- 9 has one image 5
Every element of A has exactly one image.
R1 is a function.
(b) R2 = {(1, 3), (3, 5), (5, 7)}
Here:
- 1 ∉ A
- 7 ∉ B
- element 9 ∈ A has no image
So, this is not a function from A to B.
R2 is not a function.
(c) R3 = {(2, 3), (2, 5), (2, 7), (3, 5), (3, 7), (5, 7)}
Here,
- 2 ∉ A
- 7 ∉ B
- One element has multiple images
Hence, not a function from A to B.
R3 is not a function.
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(d) R4 = {(3, 3), (5, 5)}
Elements 7 and 9 of A have no images.
So it is not a function.
R4 is not a function.
Hence, only R1 is a function from A to B.