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#376 Re: Help Me ! » Inequalities basics » 2023-02-25 07:41:08

Thanks, ganesh. But the answer to my question is not in the links you kindly posted.

#377 Re: Help Me ! » Inequalities basics » 2023-02-25 07:39:08

Thanks, mathdrop. Yes it could be 10.5 etc, but my question remains.

#378 Re: Help Me ! » Why are inequalities so called? » 2023-02-25 07:36:19

Thanks, ganesh.
I've worked my way through those pages already; very helpful. But the question I posted remained afterwards.
It seems to me to be a misnomer ('inequality') given that the two quantities involved are not always necessarily inequal, e.g, the example I gave in my original post, 2y+1 can be equal to 7 when y is 3
(I made a mistake in the original post - I put x when I meant y).

#379 Help Me ! » Why are inequalities so called? » 2023-02-24 09:40:33

paulb203
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Why does, for example, 2y+1 is less than or equal to 7 count as an inequality?
If x is 3 then 2y+1 is equal to 7, not ‘inequal’, yeah?

#380 Help Me ! » Inequalities basics » 2023-02-24 09:03:01

paulb203
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Is x is greater than or equal to 11 THE SAME AS x is greater than 10?

I gave x is greater than or equal to 11 as an answer to an inequalities question but the answer given was x is greater than 10

x is greater than or equal to 11 MEANS x is either 11, or 12, or 13, etc, yeah?

x is greater than 10 ALSO MEANS x is either 11, or 12, or 13, etc, yeah?

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