Review: Inequalities

Interval Notation Set-Builder Notation Graph

(a, b) {x | a  x  b}

[a, b] {x | a  x  b}
(, a]  (b, ) {x | a  x  x  b}

Notation:  “And”  “Common elements of set”

 “Or” == “Union”

A. Linear Inequalities

Ex 1: 3  x  4 x  7 Ex 2:  2  2 x  1  5

1 4  3x 1
Ex 3: 2(7 x  3)  12 x  16 Ex 4:   
2 5 4

B. Nonlinear Inequalities

Ex 5: x  5 x  6  0 Ex 6: 5 x  3 x  3 x  2
2 2 2

x 1 x 1
Ex 7: 0 Ex 8: 2
x2 x2

Review of Absolute Value:

5  5 x 1  x 1

5 5  ( x  1)  x  1

Ex 9: x3  4 Ex 10: x3  4

Ex 11: 3- 2 x  4  1