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The graph of which inequality has open circles on -16 and 4 with a line segment between them?

o 1 x + 6l<10
o 1 x + 101<-6
o 1 x<6
O 1 X+6 >10
help pls lol

User Aaren
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Answer: Choice A.
|x+6| < 10

Step-by-step explanation:

The rule is that stuff of the form
|x| < k becomes
-k < x < k where k is some positive number.

So we'll have these steps


|x+6| < 10\\\\-10 < x+6 < 10\\\\-10-6 < x+6-6 < 10-6\\\\-16 < x < 4\\\\

In the third step, I subtracted 6 from all sides to isolate x.

The last step indicates we'll have open holes at -16 and 4, with shading in between. It visually tells the reader "x can be anything between -16 and 4, but can't be equal to either endpoint".

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