SOLUTION: Can someone please help, my son has come to me for help with his Algebra HW. I have not been in school for over 20 years & cannot remember ANY of it. Here is the problem, if you ca

Question 671969: Can someone please help, my son has come to me for help with his Algebra HW. I have not been in school for over 20 years & cannot remember ANY of it. Here is the problem, if you can show me each step I can maybe be of some help to him:
5n+3-4n<-5-3n
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First, you have to recognize what it is
It's an INequality.
There are 4 types of inequalities
> means greater than
< means less than
>= means greater than or equal to
<= means less than or equal to
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The plain old = means equal to
Your inequality is

This says that the left side is less than the
right side. There is 1 unknown, , in this inequality
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The basic rule with inequalities is the same as
when you just have an = sign.
Whatever you do to one side, you must do the exact
same thing to the other side
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First, I'm going to subtract from both sides

Now I will add to both sides

Divide both sides by

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Notice that the < sign never changed, and
it usually does not.
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There is very simple way to check the work.
I am saying that is less than ,
so I will say that which is
slightly less than

( note that minus x minus = plus )

This is true, so I think my solution is correct
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Hope this helps

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