Friday, June 22, 2012

solve. 4+3x

You do this problem just the same way that you would do it if it were not an inequality.  What that means is that you need to get the x term on one side by itself and then simplify it down to where it is just x (instead of 3x).


So, what you do first is to subtract 4 from both sides.  Then you get


3x < 24


So then you divide both sides by 3 and you get


x < 8


And that is your answer.  Plug in a number to check and see if it's right.  We'll choose 7.


4 + 3*7 < 28


4 + 21 < 28


25 < 28


True.  So numbers less than 8 make the inequality true.


Now we'll try a number bigger than 8.


4 + (3*9) < 28


4 + 27 < 28


Not true.  So numbers bigger than 8 make the statement false.

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