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Chapter 2 Linear Equations and Inequalities
We are ready to learn and practice the mechanical task of solving linear equations and inequalities. This is a largely algorithmic skill to learn, but once you have enough practice with it, you may find that you are developing an intuition for how linear equations and inequalities behave, and for what their solution sets look like.
