Mathematics isn’t always about things being Equal. Sometimes we only know that something is Greater than or lesser than something else.

We call these things inequalities.

For example, Sue and Jane ran a race.Sue ran farther than Jane.

We don’t know how far they ran, but we know that Sue ran a longer distance than Jane.

We can express that in math terms as follows:

Where x is how far Sue ran, and y is how far Jane ran, and “>” means greater than:

x > y

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