Question

Which inequality has the graph shown below?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is y < 2x -3

Step-by-step explanation:

You can read this as all values on the graph will be the value of x times 2 minus 3..

For example, if we wanted to know what the value of y would be if x =2, we would plug in 2 and get 2(2) - 3 or just 1. We can see at the graph that when x = 2 y does equal 1. **In this situation we are pretending that the < symbol is the equal symbol..

To actually find the answer you can graph each equation until you find it or do it this way:

1) Find the slope and determine if it it works for the given graph.

We can see that the slope of the given graph is positive and if we look closer we can see that the slope is 2 over  and that we have a y-intercept of (0,-3).

2) We know that it is Option 2 instead of the first option because o the < sign. If it was option 1, then the shaded part of the graph would be on the other side of the line.