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OpenStudy (calculusxy):

MEDAL! Consider the inequality x + 8 > 13 What is the solution to the inequality?

OpenStudy (mathmale):

Hello! Just subtract 8 from both sides of this inequality. Simplify the right side. What do you now have?

OpenStudy (pinksapphire):

x>13-8 x>5

OpenStudy (calculusxy):

I don't think that x = 5 because if we do have 5 as x, it will equal to 13. 5 + 8 = 13 But we need a number (x) greater than 5. x>5

OpenStudy (calculusxy):

What can be the solutions?

OpenStudy (calculusxy):

*solution(s)

OpenStudy (pinksapphire):

Anything that is more than 5.

OpenStudy (mathmale):

And that's it. Your solution set is "the set of all numbers greater than 5." this is one-dimensional, so think of all the numbers to the right of x=5 on the real number line. You were right: thereis an inf. number of solutions.

OpenStudy (calculusxy):

So that is what I put down in The answer line?

OpenStudy (pinksapphire):

You can just put x>5

OpenStudy (mathmale):

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