Substitute the values into the inequality:
-1 - 1 > 0
-2 > 0
False
You want to find the value of x for which the area under the curve to the left of x is 0.6. One way to do that is to create the cumulative distribution function (CDF) for the given PDF, then see where it is equal to 0.6.
Doing that, we find a = 5.