describe [-4, 10] looks like
The square brackets mean that the number can be anywhere from -4 to 10. In algebraic notation, it would look like \(-4 \le x \le 10\). It's difficult to say what it looks like without knowing whether the domain is natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, or real numbers.
|-------------------0----------------------------------| -4 10
Natural numbers, and integers look like dots on a number line: \(<------*---*---*---*---------->\) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rational numbers, and real numbers are thicker versions of the number line, with a circle (for \(x<n\)) or a dot (for \(x \le n\)). \(<------*==================O------>\) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The above is [6,10). Note that 6 is included as a dot in both cases, but 10 does not have a dot for natural numbers, or integers, and it has a circle when it refers to rational or real numbers.
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