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Compound Inequalities a la Shmoop.

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Sierra is a very determined, motivated girl. [Sierra working]

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She is passionate about many things: …saving the honeybees,

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expressing her love for teenage boy bands, [Sierra dancing to boy band concert]

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and most of all, solving inequalities.

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So when her student body government posted an opening for a leadership position called

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“Inequality Solver”… [Sierra approaches job posting]

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…she jumped on the opportunity.

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Instead of sending in a resume and filling out the application, she sat down and started writing. [Sierra scribbling on paper]

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Solve for x…where 2x + 3 has to be greater than or equal to negative 3,

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AND less than or equal to 7.

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To demonstrate her knack for solving complicated tasks…

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…she decides to attack this inequality all at once. [Man and woman fighting in Martial Arts]

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She starts by subtracting 3 from each part

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of the equation to get 2x is greater than or equal to negative 6...

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…and is less than or equal to 4. Then, to isolate x, she divides everything

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by 2 to get x is greater than or equal to -3 and less than or equal to 2.

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With that solving inequality passion in action… …Sierra is convinced that there’s no way [Students working in a group]

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the student body government won’t want her as the new Inequality Solver.

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She’s so cocky about it that she even pre-ordered a basket of sculpted fruit to thank them. [Students working together and basket of fruit appears]

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