You didn't put in any parentheses so there is no way for us to tell what's in the numerators. The way you have it meansand if we subtract x from both sides, there are no variables. which becomes But that's false, so I know you didn't mean what you wrote. Did you mean parentheses around x-10 and x-5, like this? (x-10)/6 >= (x-5)/9 + 7/18 If so that would mean this: Multiply through by the LCD of 18 Solve that just like an equation. Edwin