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OpenStudy (anonymous):

help please, solution set inequality...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is your problem?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Whats the equation? I can't see it properly

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1/2x<-3

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Then x < -6

OpenStudy (anonymous):

whats the difficulty ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so is the answer b

OpenStudy (anonymous):

B is the correct option

OpenStudy (anonymous):

k so the dark circle is + and the blank one is - right

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanks

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No no. Not that. See your set is all the number lesser than -6. Which means 6 is not in the set of your solution. However, you can say -5.99999........ is in the set of solution. So how do you represent that on a number line. Somehow you will have to show that you have excluded -6 but you have included all values lesser than that.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So mathematicians use this clever method to do that. What they do, is circle -6 and leave the circle empty. Which means -6 is not included. Now they draw a line along the numbers lesser than -6, which shows it includes all numbers lesser than -6

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I am sorry, I have mentioned that -5.999999 is in the set of solution. Please exchange that number with -6.00000000001. I mistyped it. Sorry

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