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  3. DOne way to approach this question is to plug in values for one of the variables and determine the corresponding value for the o

DOne way to approach this question is to plug in values for one of the variables and determine the corresponding value for the o

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解析 One way to approach this question is to plug in values for one of the variables and determine the corresponding value for the other variable.
    One way to plug in: Plug in easy values. For example, you can plug in x = 0 and find that the corresponding value of y is -1; then you can plug in y = 0 and find that the corresponding value of x is -1. Since in the first case x is greater than y and in the second case y is greater than x, the correct answer is Choice D, the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
    A second way to plug in: If you prefer to always plug in values of x to determine corresponding values of y, you can begin by writing the equation x +y = -1 asy = -x - 1. Writing it in this form makes it easier to find the corresponding values of y.
    You can start by plugging in the value x = 0. For this value of x, the corresponding value of y is y = -1, and therefore, x is greater than y. If you continue plugging in a variety of values of x, some negative and some positive, you will see that sometimes x is greater than y and sometimes y is greater than x.
    If you inspect the equation y = —x - 1, you can conclude that since there is a negative sign in front of the x but not in front of the y, for each value of x that is greater than 0, the corresponding value of y is less than 0; therefore, for each x > 0, x is greater than y.
    What about negative values of x? A quick inspection of the equation y = —x - 1 allows you to conclude that if x < -1, then y > 0, so y is greater than x.
    So for some values of x and y that satisfy the equation, x is greater than y; and for other values, y is greater than x. Therefore, the relationship between the two quantities x and y cannot be determined from the information given, and the correct answer is Choice D.
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