Example
Try It: Solving and Graphing or
To practice solving another compound inequality connected by 'or', evaluate or . For the first inequality, subtracting 2 yields , and dividing by -5 (reversing the inequality sign) gives . For the second inequality, subtracting 5 yields , and dividing by 2 gives . Graphing both results demonstrates that the union consists of two distinct intervals: numbers less than or equal to -1 and numbers greater than or equal to 1. In interval notation, this combined solution is written as .
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