SOLUTION: If you replace the equal sign of an equation and put an inequality sign in its place, is there ever a time when the same value will be a solution to both the equation and inequali

Question 120308: If you replace the equal sign of an equation and put an inequality sign in its place, is there ever a time when the same value will be a solution to both the equation and inequality? If so, can you give an example?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The only time this happens is when you replace an equal sign with either a greater than or equal sign

or with a less than or equal sign

For instance, if you have the simple equation and you replace the equal sign with a greater than or equal sign

, you get . So we can see that 3 is a solution to both and .
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