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Please help me solve this equation: y > 6x-3 thats the first line i have to graph the other one is y < x+2
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document.write( "Those are not called \"equations\", they are called \"inequalities\".  To be\r\n" );
document.write( "call \"an equation\", a math statement must contain the symbol \" = \".  If\r\n" );
document.write( "it contains \" < \",  \" > \", \" ≦ \", or \" ≧ \", it's called an INEQUALITY.\r\n" );
document.write( "(If it contains none of these it is called an \"expression\".   \r\n" );
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document.write( "In problems that are not already solved for y, solve them for y first.\r\n" );
document.write( "However both these problems are already solved for y. \r\n" );
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document.write( "To graph y > 6x-3, first graph the boundary line whose equation is\r\n" );
document.write( "y = 6x-3, but draw it dotted because the inequality symbol is \" > \"\r\n" );
document.write( "and not \" ≧ \"\r\n" );
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document.write( "and since it's \"greater than\", we shade the region above the dotted line: \r\n" );
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document.write( "To graph y < x+2, first graph the boundary line whose equation is\r\n" );
document.write( "y = x+2, but draw it dotted because the inequality symbol is \" < \"\r\n" );
document.write( "and not \" ≦ \".\r\n" );
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document.write( "and since it's \"less than\", we shade the region below the dotted line: \r\n" );
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