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  1. December 5th 2010, 12:17 PM #1
    Johnathon324
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    Question Simple Math Question

    How is solving an inequality similar to and different from solving an equation?? Please explain well?
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    Not to much different in the process, you need to be careful when multiplying or dividing by a negative number.

    Other than that the answer to an equation is usually a single value, in an inequality it can be an interval of values.
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