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WA Activity # 3 ‐‐ Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities
Type "y=2x+3 and y=6‐x” into the WA search engine. Use the results to answer the following
questions.
1. Under “Input” notice the large, logical conjunction symbol. In your own words, what do you
think it means? Search the Internet for a formal definition of this mathematical symbol.
2. Write the solution to this system of linear equations as an ordered pair.
3. Check the solution. Does it satisfy both equations? Show your work.
Type “1.3x‐0.2y=‐3, ‐0.1x+0.5y=1.2” into the WA search engine. Notice with the comma WA no
longer uses the logical conjunction symbol. Use the results to answer the following questions.
4. Do the graphs of the two lines appear to intersect in a single point?
5. What is the viewing window of the plot of the solution set, that is, what is the Xmin, Xmax,
Ymin and Ymax? Does WA show either of the x‐ or y‐axes?
6. Write the solution to this system of linear equations as an ordered pair.
7. Check the solution. Does it satisfy both equations? Show your work.
Type "4x‐3y=‐1; 2x‐(3/2)y=3” into the WA search engine. Use the results to answer the
following questions.
8. What do you see in the plot of the solution set? What is the viewing window, that is, state
the Xmin, Xmax, Ymin and Ymax.
9. The lines look parallel. How would you prove or disprove that? Do the math. Show your
work.
Type "3x+4y=12; 2y=6‐(3/2)x” into the WA search engine. Be sure to include the semicolon. Use
the results to answer the following questions.
10. What do you see in the Plot of the solution set? What do you see below that in the Plot of
the solution set? How are they the same? How are they different?
11. How many solutions are there to this system of equations?
12. Could x could be any real number for the solution to this system of equations?
13. At the very bottom is the Integer solution for the variable y. Name three sets of ordered
pairs in the solution to this system.
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Equations and Inequalities Activities Using WA
14. Just above the bottom is the Integer solution where n could be any integer. Pick three
values for n and name three more sets of ordered pairs in the solution to this system.
Type “2x‐3<5” into the WA search engine. Use the results to answer the following questions.
15. Look at the Inequality plot. What does the graph of the blue line represent? What does the
graph of the red line represent?
16. Part of the graph is shaded in. Why?
17. The Alternate from stated as x < 4. Why?
18. What would you say is the solution to this inequality? Give the answer using interval
notation.
Type “5x+8<=7(1+x)” into the WA search engine. Use the results to answer the following
questions.
19. What does the graph of the blue line represent? What does the graph of the red line
represent?
20. Part of the graph is shaded in. Why?
21. State the solution to this inequality using interval notation.
Let’s try a system of inequalities. Type “y<x and y>=(1/2)x‐3” into the WA search engine. Use
the results to answer the following questions.
22. Does the Inequality plot show a shaded region?
23. Does WA show another solution?
24. What do you think is the solution to this system of inequalities?
25. When sketching the graph of the solution to this system of inequalities, would either of the
lines be solid? If so which one(s)? Would either of the lines be dashed? If so, which one(s)?
Does WA show that?
Type “x<=3 and y>‐1” into the WA search engine. Use the results to answer the following
questions.
26. Does the Inequality plot show a shaded region?
27. Does WA show another solution?
28. What do you think is the solution to this system of inequalities?
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Equations and Inequalities Activities Using WA
29. When sketching the graph of the solution to this system of inequalities, would either of the
lines be solid? If so which one(s)? Would either of the lines be dashed? If so, which one(s)?
Does WA show that?