How do you graph y - 4 < x - 6y4<x6?

1 Answer
Apr 4, 2015

First of all, let's study where the equation holds: you have
y-4=x-6 \iff y=x-2y4=x6y=x2.
This is the equation of a line, which you can easily graph. If you think about it, the graph of a function is the set of the points which satisfy the relation y=f(x)y=f(x); but we are looking for the points which satisfy the relation y < f(x)y<f(x).

You can see that the two requests are strongly related: if the graph of the line is the set of points in which y=x-2y=x2 holds, the set of points in which y< x-2y<x2 holds is the part of the plan below the graph, as you can see:

graph{y< x-2 [-10, 10, -5, 5]}