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Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 13:50:11 2021 No.13701084 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13701697 >>13701708

Prealgebra learner here, shouldn't the answer in this textbook be a > b why is it a >= b?

>this is grade 1 math
Yeah I know and I'm a brainlet that's why I'm doing these exercises

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Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 13:54:15 No.13701098 Report

Quoted By: >>13701710

It's not technically wrong, but it isn't as accurate as > is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 17:31:45 No.13701697 Report

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>>13701084
Should be a>b, textbook writer is either retarded or there is some dumb obscure math bs that's makes it technically correct

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 17:35:12 No.13701708 Report

Quoted By: >>13701710

>>13701084
Yep, that is strange. It's not wrong, but neither is "-1.3 is greater than -1.33... or math is made of cheese".

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 17:36:19 No.13701710 Report

Quoted By: >>13701721 >>13701726

>>13701708
>>13701098
>not technically wrong
Why not?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 17:39:53 No.13701721 Report

Quoted By:

>>13701710
>a >= b
>a is either greater than b, or equal to b
>a IS greater than b

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Sep 2021 17:43:20 No.13701726 Report

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>>13701710
Because -1.3 is indeed part of the set of numbers greater than or equal to -1.33... but since -1.3 obviously doesn't equal -1.33..., the or "equal to" is unnecessary because one number can't be both greater than and equal to a value

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