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Course: 7th grade > Unit 6
Lesson 7: One-step inequalities- Plotting inequalities on a number line
- Inequality from graph
- Plotting inequalities
- Testing solutions to inequalities
- Testing solutions to inequalities
- One-step inequalities examples
- One-step inequalities: -5c ≤ 15
- One-step inequalities
- One-step inequality word problem
- One-step inequalities review
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Plotting inequalities on a number line
Graph inequalities on a number line, using filled in points at the boundary for ≤ or ≥ and arrows in the appropriate direction. Make sense of the inequalities in context. Created by Sal Khan.
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- How do you know when to put a open or a closed circle?(1 vote)
- you put a circle that isnt colored in when the number isn't part of the solution set, so for example i get the answer x is greater that 4, i would put a hollow circle and an arrow pointing to the right because 4 wouldn't work as an answer, but if it was x is more that or equal to 4, the circle would be colored in because if you plugged 4 into the equation, it would work(14 votes)
- dude that number line was literally the best straight line ive ever seen just casually drawn. 🥲(5 votes)
- I can’t read cursive(2 votes)
- How do you know when to put a open or a closed circle?(0 votes)
- if it has no line it is open if there is a line its closed, simple.(3 votes)
- Does anyone get this?(0 votes)
- Sure! It's super simple.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] We're told
that Pierre has 48 minutes until he needs to get
ready for his dance lesson. Graph how many minutes he can
spend playing with his pet, before getting ready. If you are so inspired, I
encourage you to be so inspired, pause the video and see if
you can work through that. All right, now let's think
through this together. So first of all, before I
even graph it, I could say, let's say that M is how many minutes he is playing with his
pet, before getting ready. So let's just call it, that's what M is going to be equal to. It's how many minutes he spends. And so how would M
relate to the 48 minutes? Well, he has 48 minutes, so he could spend anywhere from zero, up to and including 48 minutes. So you might say M is less than 48. But it's not just less than, it could even be exactly 48 minutes. As long as immediately after that, he gets ready for his dance lesson. So M is less than or equal to 48. So if I were to put that on a number line, let me construct a number line like this. And let me put this at
zero right over here. And let's say this is 10, 20,
30, 40, 50, 60, keep going. This could be 70. This is going to be
essentially the values of M that are going to be okay, as long as he's prepared
for his dance lesson. M is less than or equal to 48. So what we can do is, we can
go to 48, which is, let's see, this would be 45, so 40 eight's gonna be right around there. So that's 48. And since it can be equal to 48, we're gonna fill in the circle. If it just said purely less than 48, but not less than or equal, then we would put an open circle here. But because it's less than or equal to, we're going to include
48 right over there. I'll write the number 48 to
make it clear what that is, and less than or equal to. So it's gonna be all of
the values less than that. And so it would look something like this. I'm doing that light blue color. It would look something
like then, like that. And if we wanted to be clear
that we're including zero, we could actually put a dot here as well. It wouldn't make sense to go and include negative values as well. But let's do another
example, a different example. So here, we are told
that the Harris family needs to heat their leftover gumbo, to a minimum of 74 degrees Celsius, to be sure it is safe to eat. Graph temperatures to which
they could heat their food, so that it is safe to eat. So once again, pause this video, and see if you could think about that, before we do this together. All right, well let's imagine, let's see, maybe we'll
say T for temperature. So T for temperature. And let's say T is the
temperature that they heat to, temperature that they heat their gumbo to, that they heat to. And now let's do a number line. We see, well, before
I even do number line, let me express it as some
kind of an inequality. So they need a minimum
of 74 degrees Celsius. So that means it has to
be at least 74, or higher. So that means T is not just
greater than 74 degrees Celsius. It can also be exactly 74 degrees Celsius, 'cause it says as long
as it's a minimum of 74. So if it's exactly 74, that is apparently
going to be safe to eat. And anything higher than that, is also going to be safe to eat. At some point you can get
to such a high temperature, that you essentially
turn your food into ash. It might not be a delicious gumbo anymore, but it would probably be safe to eat, if you're just eating gumbo powder of some gumbo ash I guess. Actually, I'm not sure
if that's safe to eat. But let's just assume it is. I don't recommend doing that. But let's put this on the number line. So let me, and actually here, actually, let me do it in white so that
I can, in that reddish color, I can actually put the
values that we care about. And we can have negative temperature, if we're talking about degrees Celsius. So let's say that this is zero degrees, this is 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70. Let me label that one. That's 70 degrees. This would be 80 degrees right over here. If we wanted to, this would
be negative 10, negative 20. And we have to be greater than, or equal to 74 degrees Celsius. If we just had T is greater
than 74 degrees Celsius, we would go to 74, which
would be right around there. We put an open circle, and then we would go greater than that. So that's if T was strictly
greater than 74 degrees Celsius. But it's greater than or equal to. And so because of that, we are going to fill in
this dot right over there. And to be clear, that is at
74 degrees and we're done.