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Big Ideas Math Geometry, 2014

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Maintaining Mathematical Proficiency

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Exercise 6 Page 299

The word or divides the sentence into descriptions of two distinct inequalities.

s≤5 or s>2

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Examining the given sentence, we can see that it consists of descriptions of two distinct inequalities joined by the word or. A numbersis less than or equal to5or greater than2.

Every inequality has an inequality symbol and values or expressions on either side of this symbol. In our case, we need to find the inequality symbols for the given phrases.

Phrase	Inequality symbol
less than or equal to	≤
greater than	>

Once we know the symbols, we can complete the inequality. A numbersis less than or equal to5or greater than2. s≤ 5or s>2

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