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Moti 44 Advanced Strategies

The document discusses various types of inequalities and how they can relate to each other. It provides examples of how knowing one inequality, like x > 5, can determine if another is true, like x > 0. It also discusses how inequalities can have hidden constraints and how variables in denominators require considering positive and negative cases. The document aims to illustrate concepts about manipulating inequalities through examples.

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Moti 44 Advanced Strategies

The document discusses various types of inequalities and how they can relate to each other. It provides examples of how knowing one inequality, like x > 5, can determine if another is true, like x > 0. It also discusses how inequalities can have hidden constraints and how variables in denominators require considering positive and negative cases. The document aims to illustrate concepts about manipulating inequalities through examples.

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One inequality may imply another seemingly unrelated inequality,

depending on the situation. For example, if you need to know

if x > 0, then knowing that x > 5 is sufficient. If x is greater

than 5, then it must be positive, i.e. x > 0. However, the opposite is true

it is not so. If you knew that x < 5, then you wouldn't be able to

determine if x > 0. For all x can be positive but less than

5 or x can be negative.

1.

Inequalities can be combined with integer constraints to produce a

single value. For example, if 0 < x < 2 and x is an integer, then x must

is equal to 1.

2.

Some word problems may create hidden constraints involving

inequalities. These inequalities may come into play in the determination

right answer. For example, the problem might read: “Oldest

student in class. . . the next oldest student in the class. . . and

the youngest student in the class. . .” This can be translated into

the following inequality: youngest < middle < oldest.

3.

Inequalities involving a variable in the denominator often involve two

options: positive and negative. For example, if you

you know you might be tempted to multiply ya

arrive at 1 < xy. However, this may not be correct. It depends on

whether y is a positive or negative number. If y > 0, then it is correct

deduce that 1 < xy. However, if y < 0, then 1 > xy. That's why you will

in this situation, two cases (positive and negative) need to be tested.

4.

At the same time, hidden restrictions can allow you to manipulate

inequalities more easily. For example, if the quantity must be positive,

then you can multiply both sides of the inequality by this quantity

without having to set up two cases.


5.

Take a look at some examples that illustrate these concepts.

Try #4-4

If is prime, what is the value of x?

If is prime, then possible values are 2, 3, 5, etc.

Therefore, x must be a perfect square of a prime number; possible values include 4,

9, 25 and so on.

(1) SUFFICIENT: Manipulate the inequality and isolate x:

Many issues of inequality are actually masked

positive/negative questions. For example, if you know that xy > 0,

the fact that xy is greater than 0 is not very important in itself

interesting. Interestingly, the product is positive,

meaning both x and y are positive or both x and y are negative.

So x and y have the same sign. Here is the inequality symbol

is used to mask the fact that x and y have the same sign.

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