SOLUTION: Please help me to graph this inequality, x>1

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Question 56683: Please help me to graph this inequality,
x>1

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Please help me to graph this inequality,
x > 1

Draw a number line like this

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-4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

Now on the line above the 1 draw an open circle
like this 

---------------------o---------------------
-4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

Now since x is greater than 1, and all the
numbers greater than 1 are to the right of
the number 1 on the line, darken the line to
the right of 1, and put an arrow on the 
right end to indicate that the values of x
which are greater than 1 do not stop at 6,
but continue indefinitely to the right, like
this:

---------------------o=====================>
-4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

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Now if you had to draw the graph of

   x < 1

instead, it would have been:

<====================o---------------------
 -4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

*******************************************
*******************************************

If you had to draw the graph of

   x > 1

which means "x is greater than OR EQUAL TO 1"
instead, it would have been:

---------------------·=====================>
-4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

with the circle darkened to show that x could 
equal to 1.

*******************************************
*******************************************

If you had to draw the graph of

   x < 1

which means "x is less than OR EQUAL TO 1"
instead, it would have been:

<=====================·--------------------->
-4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6

with the circle darkened to show that x could 
equal to 1.

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*******************************************

Edwin