A function is just a fancy name for a math problem. It could be a straight line or it could be a parabola or even some thing else. The key to knowing what it looks like is the leading coefficient. What is the highest power of x? Is it positive or negative? An x with the power of one will be a straight line at an angle.
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a line graph looks like a stocks chart
A one-to-one graph must pass both the horizontal and the vertical line test. That means that no x-value can have two y-values and no y-value can have two x-values. An example of a one-to-one function is a line. Things like parabolas and the graph of an absolute function cannot be one-to-one.
A zero of a function is a point at which the value of the function is zero. If you graph the function, it is a point at which the graph touches the x-axis.
If the graph of the function is a continuous line then the function is differentiable. Also if the graph suddenly make a deviation at any point then the function is not differentiable at that point . The slope of a tangent at any point of the graph gives the derivative of the function at that point.
This graph fails the vertical line test at x = 3This graph is not the graph of a function.