SOLUTION: In -2< n greater than or equal to 3,what is the value of n?

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Question 1174680: In -2< n greater than or equal to 3,what is the value of n?

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Solving an inequality rarely results in "the" value for n....

I will assume that the compound inequality "-2< n greater than or equal to 3" is supposed to mean "negative 2 is less than n and n is greater than 3".

That is a strange inequality; I suspect it is stated incorrectly.

An equivalent statement of the compound inequality is "n is greater than -2 and n is greater than 3".

That is an odd way to state a compound inequality; because every number that is greater than or equal to 3 is already greater than -2.

So the "n is greater than -2" is extraneous; the solution to the stated inequality is just "n is greater than or equal to 3".

ANSWER: n is any number greater than or equal to 3.