A number r is more than 0 or less than or equal to -8 .

Answer 1

This problem is telling us that r is positive for the first part and negative for the second. The or means there's 2 inequalities.

0 < r

or

r < -8

Visually it looks like this:

<--------_-8-------------₀---------->

The circle to mark -8 is solid and the one on the 0 is open