document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=90766>Question 90766</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Graph the inequality.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "     y > –4<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #66504 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=bucky><B>bucky(2189)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=bucky><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=66504\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A way to look at this is to graph the equation: y = -4. The graph of this equation is a<BR>\n" );
document.write( "horizontal line that crosses the y-axis at -4. This graph looks like:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Note that the graph is a line that represents all the points that have a value of y equal<BR>\n" );
document.write( "to -4. But the graph that you were asked to make is to show all the points that have a <BR>\n" );
document.write( "y value that is greater than -4. Suppose you shade in the entire graph ABOVE the line that<BR>\n" );
document.write( "represents y = -4. Do not include the line itself.  The shading should go from minus <BR>\n" );
document.write( "infinity to plus infinity in the x-direction and starting at just above the graphed <BR>\n" );
document.write( "line for y = -4 it should go upward towards a y value approaching plus infinity.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Note that any point in the shaded region (regardless of its x value) will have a y value<BR>\n" );
document.write( "that is greater than -4.  So the graph you are looking for is the shaded region above the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "graphed line for y = -4.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Hope this makes sense to you.  It might help if you pick some (x, y) points in the shaded<BR>\n" );
document.write( "region and you will see that regardless of the x value that you choose for such a point, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "the corresponding y value will always be greater than -4 as long as the point is in the<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For example, the point (-9, -3) is in the shaded region. The y value of this point is<BR>\n" );
document.write( "-3 and that is greater than the y value -4 (because it is more positive than -4). <BR>\n" );
document.write( "And the point (0, 0) is in the shaded region.  Again the y value of this point is zero,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and this is greater than -4. And so on ...<BR>\n" );
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