Given a^2 < 4 and a+2b = 8. Work out the range of possible values of b. Give your answer as an inequality.

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Given a^2 < 4 and a+2b = 8. Work out the range of possible values of b. Give your answer as an inequality.

For this question, we want to start by finding the possible values of a from the first equation and then using that to give us information about b from the second equation.

Now, the condition that a^2 < 4 actually gives us two pieces of information (a way to remember this is that for inequalities, squared gives us two things). We have that a < 2 but also that a > -2 since for example, (-3)^2 = 9 which is larger than 4. Therefore, we have -2 < a < 2.

Rearranging the second equation for b, we get b = (8-a)/2. Therefore, putting in our values for a, we get that the maximum value of b is (8-(-2))/2 = 10/2 = 5 and the minimum value of b is (8-2)/2 = 6/2 = 3. Since the inequality for a does not include 2 and -2, we do not include 3 and 5 for b and so we get the answer 3 < b < 5.

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