SOLUTION: Hi-how do you graph x+y<3 and x-y_>_4? Our slope keeps coming out opposite of what the answer in the book shows...can't figure out what we are doing wrong. Can you help us? Than

Question 674956: Hi-how do you graph x+y<3 and x-y_>_4? Our slope keeps coming out opposite of what the answer in the book shows...can't figure out what we are doing wrong. Can you help us?
Thanks,
Kelly

Answer by ReadingBoosters(3246) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x+y<3
as slope intercept form is
x - x + y < 3 - x
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slope is -1

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x-y > 4 or is that x-y > -4 ?
x-y > 4 is x - y + y - 4 > 4 - 4 + y

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if it is x-y > -4, then
x - y + y +4 > -4 + 4 + y

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Either way on this last one, slope is 1
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