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Here's your shmoop du jour...

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Which expression is depicted by the number line?

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And here are your potential answers...

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Well, it's really all about knowing the distinction between greater than and greater

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than OR EQUAL TO.

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In this case, we can just derive our own equation to describe this line.

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We'll start with the x, which is gonna live here on the line inside these two points.

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And note that the points are described with filled-in circles - not empty ones.

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The fact that the circles are filled in means that the points are greater than or equal

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to... or less than or equal to.

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So another little curve ball they throw at you - the 7/8 here is left of the 0... i.e.,

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it's negative.

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So x is gonna have to be greater than or equal to negative 7/8.

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On the right we see the 1/8, which x is less than or equal to.

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And the only one that works... is A.

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