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No your mistake is on the second line. The -4 should be a +4.
You changed the sign of both the expression and the 4. That's wrong.
You only change the sign on ONE side, not both. The 3x+2 > 4 is correct,
and x > 2/3 is correct.
Here is the correction:
The problem is |3x+2| > 4. This is what I tried:
3x+2 > 4 or -3x-2>4
3x > 2 or -3x>6
x > 2/3 or x < -2
What's between a pair of absolute value bars can either be what's there or the
negative of what's there because |5| and |-5| are the same thing> So
the 5 can either have an understood positive sign before it or a written
negative sign before it. But the right side (the number) doesn't change signs.
To graph that draw a numberline and mark -2 and 2/3 with open circles. 2/3 is
located two-thirds of the way between 0 and 1:
<==============o----------------o=============>
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
The interval notation for that is
Edwin
