SOLUTION: I am trying to help my son but am having difficulty being that I have been out of school for sometime. I don't know how to explain this to him.5x+2>3x+10 I don' have the foggiest.I

Question 337264: I am trying to help my son but am having difficulty being that I have been out of school for sometime. I don't know how to explain this to him.5x+2>3x+10 I don' have the foggiest.I have no examples to try to make sense of this.Please help!
5x+2>3x+10
5x-3x>10-2
2x>8
x>8/2
x>4
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, chiexpert:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Solve it like any other algebra problem.
Get the terms on the left side, everything else on the right.
Subtract from both sides.

Subtract from both sides.

Divide both sides by

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.
.
Finally, verify the solution.
Pick an so that .
How about
Test the inequality.

True.
Also, choose another that doesn't satisfy the inequality.
Let

False, but that's what you expected.
So you have a good solution.

Answer by chiexpert(48) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

5x+2>3x+10
5x-3x>10-2
2x>8
x>8/2

a linear equations:
subtract 3x from both sides. and subtract 2 from both sides. divide positive 2 from both sides. you get x>4
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