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Question 72932: Graph the inequality.
y < -1
Answer by bucky(2189)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Start by thinking about the graph of y = -1. This graph is a horizontal line through the
point -1 on the y-axis.
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The graph is a horizontal line because no matter what the value of x is, y is always -1.
If x = -50, then y = -1; if x = 0, then y = -1; if x = +10, then y = -1.
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So this graph is where y = -1. But according to the problem y has to be less than that.
So shade in the entire region below the horizontal line as far as you can imagine to the right
and to the left on the graph. That shaded area represents the region where y can be because
any point within that shaded area has a value for y that is less than -1. Note that y cannot
be on the horizontal line because the given inequality does not say that y can equal -1
... it says that y must be less than -1.
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Hope this helps you to understand this inequality.
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