INEQUALITIES

Questions. 1–8: Solve the following inequalities

1. 3x – 4 > 7
2. 8x – 4 < -3
5 + 9x
3. 7
4
4. x2 – 9  0
5. (x – 1) (x – 2) < 0
6. (x – 2) (x + 2) (3x –4)  0
7. (3 – 2x) (8x + 7) (x – 4)  0
2 − 5x
8. 0
(3 − x ) ( x + 4)
( x − 4) ( x + 7)
9. 0
x+2
1 1 2
10. + 
x +1 x −1 x + 2
1 1 1 1
11. −  −
x +1 x x −1 x − 2
1 1
12. 
x − 5x + 6
2 2

13. (x – 3)2 (2x + 3) (x – 1) > 0

14. (x+3) (3x-2)5 (7-x)3 (5x+8)2  0
x ( x + 2) 3 ( x − 4) ( x + 5) 6
15.  0.
x 3 ( x − 4) 3 ( x + 2) 6 ( x − 1) 7

( x − 1) 2 ( x + 1) ( x − 2)
16. 0
( x − 3) ( x + 2) ( x − 5)

( x − 1) ( x + 1) 2 ( x − 2)
17. 0
( x + 2) ( x − 3) ( x + 5)
49
(x − 3)500 (x + 1)99 (x − 9)4  x − 2 
 3
18.  0
x 100
(x − 2) (x + 2)
75 81

19. (x+3) (3x – 2)5 (7-x)3 (5x + 8)2  0

x 2 ( x + 1) 3 ( x − 2) 4 ( x − 3)
20. 0
x ( x + 1) 6 ( x + 3) 7 ( x − 3)

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 Answer Key

INEQUALITIES
Answers Key:

 11 
1. x   , 
3 

 1
2. x   − , 
 8

 23 
3. x   , 
9 

4. x  − 3 , 3

5. (1, 2)
4
6. (-, -2]  [ , 2]
3

 − 7 3 
7. x  − ,  , 4
 8   2 
2
8. (-, -4)  ( , 3)
5
9. x  − 7 , − 2)  4 ,  )

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10. (-2, -1)  [ - , 1)
2

 1
11. (-, -1)   0 ,   (1, 2)
 2
12. [1, 2)  (3, 4]
 −3
13. x   −  ,   (1, ) − {3}
 2 

−8
14. (-, -3]   , 7   
2
 3   5 

15. (-, -2]  (1, 4)  (4, )

16. (-, -2)  (-1, 2)  (3, 5) – {1}
17. (-5, -2)  [1, 2]  (3, )  {-1}

18. x  (-2, 1)   , 2 
2
3 

x  − 3 ,    7 ,  )
2
19.
 3

20. (-, -3)  (-1, 0)  {2}

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