Solving equations and inequalities: Linear inequalities in one unknown
Reduction to a linear inequality
In some cases, you can reduce complicated inequalities to linear inequalities.
We note first that division by zero is not allowed and that for this reason \(4x+6\) may not be equal to zero and that therefore \(x=-{{3}\over{2}}\) is not a solution.
We now distinguish two cases, namely \(4x+6>0\) and \(4x+6<0\).
In both cases we multiply the inequality on both sides by \(4x+6\) because we then get a linear inequality, for which we know there is a solution method.
Suppose \(4x+6>0\), i.e. \(x> -{{3}\over{2}}\). Then we get \(2<8(4x+6)\).
When we move everything with \(x\) to the left and all constant terms to the right, we get \(-32x<46\).
Then, dvision by the coefficient of \(x\)gives \(x > -{{23}\over{16}}\).
So we have the following system of inequalities: \(x> -{{3}\over{2}}\,\wedge\; x > -{{23}\over{16}}\)
and this simplifies to \(x\gt-{{23}\over{16}}\).
Suppose \(4x+6<0\), i.e. \(x< -{{3}\over{2}}\). Then we get \(2>8(4x+6)\).
When we move everything with \(x\) to the left and all constant terms to the right, we get \(-32x>46\).
Then, division by the coefficient of \(x\) gives \(x < -{{23}\over{16}}\).
So we have the following system of inequalities: \(x< -{{3}\over{2}}\,\wedge\; x < -{{23}\over{16}}\)
and this simplifies to \(x\lt -{{3}\over{2}}\).
The solution of the original inequality is \(x\lt -{{3}\over{2}}\;\vee\;x\gt-{{23}\over{16}}\).