** Also can the answer -2 < x < 1 be explained?
ok you must understand this before you can possible understand the other bit.
This means that x has to be between -2 and +1
If you graphed it it would look like this
This might help too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06lOQCBcyc
There are a lot of sites that will help you to understand this.
I just googled
"understanding inequalities" to find this video :)