1-5 Solving Simple

Inequalities

≥ ≤ <
>
 Vocabul
ary two quantities
• Inequality – compares
and typically uses one of these
symbols <, >, ≤, or ≥
• < is less than
• > is greater than
• ≤ is less than or equal to
• ≥ is greater than or equal to
 Vocabulary
• Algebraic inequality - is an inequality that
contains a variable ( that would be a letter)
• Solution of the inequality - a number that
makes an inequality true
• Solution set - the set of all solutions that
makes an inequality true ( can be shown by
graphing it on a number line)
• Ex. X + 3 > 4
• -3 >-3
• x>1
• 0 1 2 3 4 5
Graphing inequalities
 Solving and Graphing
inequalities
x + 7 < 10
- 7 < -7
x<3

6n ≥ 30
÷6≥÷6
n≥5
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