document.write( "Question 398646: Solve the inequality and enter answer in interval notation. For example, your answer may look like (-40,inf)
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Solve the inequality and enter answer in interval notation. For example, your answer may look like (-40,inf)
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\n" ); document.write( "1st: x cannot be -2
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\n" ); document.write( "2nd: solve the equality:
\n" ); document.write( "19/(x+2) = 5
\n" ); document.write( "19/5 = x+2
\n" ); document.write( "x = (19/5)-(10/5)
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\n" ); document.write( "Draw a number line and plot x = -2 and x = (9/5)
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\n" ); document.write( "Check values in each of the resulting intervals to
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\n" ); document.write( "19/(x+2)>5
\n" ); document.write( "Let x = -10; you get 19/-8> 5; false
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = 0; you get 19/2 > 5 ; true so solutions in (-2,9/5)
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = 10; you get 19/12 > 5 ; false
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\n" ); document.write( "Total solution set for the equality and the inequality;
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\n" ); document.write( "Cheers,
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