Question 53923: Can someone tell me how to work this?
Graph:
3x-2y>-12
Answer by funmath(2933)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Your going to have to use your imagination for the graph, but I'll try to walk you through it.
Put the equation in slope intercept form: y=mx+b, m=slope, (0,b)=y-intercept.
3x-2y>-12
-3x+3x-2y>-3x-12
-2y>-3x-12
When you multiply or divide an inequality by a negative number you flip the inequality sign.
Plot (0,6)
Use the slope  to plot a second point.
Our slope  From the point (0,6) go up 3 units and right 2 units and plot a point.
Normally, you'd connect the dots with a solid line, however, y does not equal that line, so we connect the two dots with a dashed line.
Now we have to decide what side of the dashed line to shade on. For y<, shade below the line. For y>, shade above the line. In our case we have y<, so shade below the dashed line.
Imagine the graph below with a dashed line instead of a solid line and the area below the line being shaded.
Happy Calculating!!!
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