Match each interval to what it holds
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- (a, b)
- Right
- Both endpoints are left out of the set
- Left
- [a, b]
- Right
- Both endpoints are included in the set
- Left
- [a, b)
- Right
- a is included and b is left out
- Left
- (a, b]
- Right
- a is left out and b is included
- Left
- (a, infinity)
- Right
- Everything above a, with a left out
- Left
- [a, infinity)
- Right
- Everything from a upward, a included
- Instructions
- Tap an interval, then tap the description of exactly which numbers it lets in.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Algebra (CC BY 4.0), section 2.7 Linear Inequalities and Absolute Value Inequalities_