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Help with core 1 maths question

Solve the inequality:
9k^2 + 4k - 28 > 0

Thank you

just to add my teacher told me the answers are 14/9 and -2 but I don't know how to get to it
(edited 8 years ago)
The first step is to solve it as a quadratic equation.
If you treat it like it equals zero to start with and get a quadratic and what k would equal, you can then draw a curved to see which signs, either > or <, should be where the equals sign is.
Mind linking me to the paper you got that from?
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Original post by bakedbeans247
Mind linking me to the paper you got that from?


I don't actually have the paper. It was part of a paper put together by my college.
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Original post by SecretDuck
The first step is to solve it as a quadratic equation.

I can't actually factorise it though.
Original post by kaclrk
I don't actually have the paper. It was part of a paper put together by my college.


Oh ok then. Well here, i found the answer: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1796766
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Original post by kaclrk
Solve the inequality:
9k^2 + 4k - 28 > 0

Thank you

just to add my teacher told me the answers are 14/9 and -2 but I don't know how to get to it


(k+2)(9k-14) - 9k^2+18k-14k-28
k=-2 k=14/9
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Original post by bakedbeans247
Oh ok then. Well here, i found the answer: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1796766


Thank you!!
Original post by emily132
(k+2)(9k-14) - 9k^2+18k-14k-28
k=-2 k=14/9

so would the answer be k<14/9 and k>-2
or just k=14/9 k=-2
Original post by Fatuma-97
so would the answer be k<14/9 and k>-2
or just k=14/9 k=-2


yeah you would the inequality sign and probably sketch a quick graph to show the values to get all the marks :smile:
Original post by emily132
yeah you would the inequality sign and probably sketch a quick graph to show the values to get all the marks :smile:

ok thank you :smile:

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