SOLUTION: how do you solve -3p+7≥-2 without multiplying or dividing both sides by a negative number?

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Question 1205146: how do you solve -3p+7≥-2 without multiplying or dividing both sides by a negative number?
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Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


If the coefficient of the variable in a linear inequality is negative, move that term to the other side of the inequality to make it positive. Then when you divide, you are dividing by a positive number.

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