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How do you answer these questions? How do you know whether a given value is a solution to the inequality?

How do you answer these questions? How do you know whether a given value is a solution-example-1
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We have the following inequality:

x > - 0.75

This is the same as state "x is greater than -0.75". Therefore, any value greater than -0.75 is a solution to this inequality

Considering this rule, we can answer each item:

a) The statement "-0.75 is a solution to the inequality" is FALSE, because, or rule states that x must be greater than -0.75.

b) The statement "There are many solutions to this inequality" is TRUE. Actually, there is an infinite number of solutions to this inequality (some of them can be expressed by -0.74, -0.73, -0.72...)

c) The statement "All the solutions to the inequality are negative" is FALSE, since any positive (or null) number is also greater than -0.75.

d) The statement "The inequality -0.75 < x is equivalent to the given inequality" is TRUE, since this inequality is tha same as the statement "-0.75 is less than x", which is a different form of express the original statement "x is greater than -0.75".

e) The statement "-4.5 is a solution to the inequality" is FALSE, because -4.5 is less than -0.75, which contradicts or rule.

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