#84 from Rephrasing Lab

[callumthomas10]

In this problem the instructor rephrases the question to be;

Is x + y < -1?

With my rephrasing I got;

Is x + y<= -1?
(because lets say if x + y = -1, not just x+y <-1, then z must be >1, because -1 + z > 0, right?)

The difference in the rephrasing doesn't end up impacting the final answer, but I wanted to check if my rephrasing was in fact correct, and if not, why? Was I just lucky that I got this correct.

Thanks

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