When the quarterback was sacked during last night’s game, there was a loss of more than 6 yards on the play. Write and graph an inequality for the situation above.
if counting lost yards, then x > 6
If counting actual change in yardage gained, then x < -6
Let's represent the loss of yards as a variable, let's call it "x". Based on the given information that there was a loss of more than 6 yards on the play, we can write an inequality as follows:
x > -6
To graph this inequality, we would plot the points on a number line to represent all values of "x" that are greater than -6.
To write an inequality for the situation described, we can use the yard loss as our variable and set a condition for the loss being greater than 6 yards. Let's assume the yard loss is represented by the variable "L".
The inequality can be written as:
L > -6
To graph this inequality, we can represent the yard loss (L) on the vertical axis and the number line on the horizontal axis. Since the inequality is L > -6, we need to represent all values of L that are greater than -6.
To graph it, we start with an open circle at -6 and then draw an arrow to the right to represent all values greater than -6. The graph would look like this:
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The open circle indicates that -6 is not included in the solution, and the arrow to the right represents all values greater than -6.