SOLUTION: Hi, I am completing summer work for algebra 2, and one problem is an inequality that I cannot solve. 7x-(9x+1)>-5. Could you also explain how it is solved?

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Question 323697: Hi, I am completing summer work for algebra 2, and one problem is an inequality that I cannot solve. 7x-(9x+1)>-5. Could you also explain how it is solved?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

<--- Distributive property
<--- Simplify
<--- Add 1 to both sides
<--- Divide by (-2), change the direction of the inequality because you divided by a negative number.

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