Example
Try It: Solving and Graphing and
To practice solving a compound inequality, solve and . Solving the first inequality gives , which simplifies to or . Solving the second inequality yields , which simplifies to or . Graphing both results shows that the intersection of and is the interval where . In interval notation, this overlapping solution is written as .
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