SOLUTION: How do I know which direction to shade the graph in? y>4x-1

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Question 76994: How do I know which direction to shade the graph in?
y>4x-1

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Plug in a test point (0,0) (the easiest to evaluate) and if the inequality is true, then we shade the region containing (0,0)


Since this is true we shade in the region containing (0,0). Which happens to be above the line

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