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Read  logic chapters 1 to 5  in online volume Three Skills for Algebra  for greater skills & confidence in  work 
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 Logic chapters 1 to 5  re- appear not in sequence, as is or longer,  in  Volume 1A,  Pattern Based Reason, Bon Appetite.

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After logic  (a) continue reading Three Skills for Algebra, chapters 8 to 14  and do so alongside site area on solving liinear Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes  & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;

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4B.  Interval Notation

Used to describe some domains and ranges - whatever the latter may be for functions and relations.

Let IR denote the set of real numbers.  Let a < b be real numbers.  we put

Square Bracket
Notation (Quebec)
subset Set Builder Notation
Standard
Notation
Interval
Type
[a,b] =  { x in IR |  a < x < b} = [a, b] closed
[a,b[ =  { x in IR |  a < x < b} = [a,b) closed-open
]a,b] =  { x in IR |  a < x < b} = (a, b] open-closed
]a,b[ = { x in IR |  a < x < b}  = (a,b) open

Square bracket notation for half-open and open intervals is different from the notation I learnt in university.

Simple Exercise for Students: Draw intervals.

The above intervals are finite intervals stretching from x = a to x = b with or without the endpoints a and b included.  In the last three intervals, the case a = b leads to empty sets.

Remark:  I am coining the phrases closed- open to describe the interval [a, b) and the phrase open-closed to describe the interval (a,b] 

Let IR denote the set of real numbers.  Let a a  real numbers.  we put

Square Bracket
Notation (Quebec)
(subset) Set Builder Notation
Standard Notation
in use at the college level.
[a,+oo[ =  { x in IR |  a < x } =  [a, +oo)
]a,+oo[ =  { x in IR |  a < x } =  (a, +oo)
]-oo,a] =  { x in IR |   x < a} =  (-oo, a]
]-oo,a] =  { x in IR |   x < a} =  (-oo, a)
]-oo,+oo]  =  IR =  (-oo, +oo)

 Here +oo = oo is read as "positive infinity" or "infinity" while -oo read as "negative infinity"

 

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