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Question 226599: If I am to determine if each number is a solution to the given enequatlity how would I do the following problem:
-1 > x

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Question 226809: Write the verbal sentence as an equality. Then solve the inequality and graph your solution.

One less than x is less than -1 OR 3 more than x is greater than or equal to 7
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Question 226894: how would you solve 3a-2(6a-4)>4-(4a+6)
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Question 227244: what is s/6<1
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Question 227274: Jon has 1121 points in his math class. He must have 88% of the 1400 points possible by the end of the term to receive credit for the class. What is the minimum number of additional points he must earn by the end of the term to receive credit for the class. Answer must be used as an inequality.
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Question 227341: Write an ineqquality for the following problem. While school shopping Jancie and Patty spent more than $175. Janice spent $34. How much did Patty spend.
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Question 227414: trying to remember how to solve -2 is less than x less than 5
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Question 227418: This is in reference to Solving Multi-Step Inequalities.
What is the answer to the following problem (including steps):
10>6+y/5.
I attempted to solve the problem but I am not positive on how to do so therefore I have come up with the following answer: Y=4 this was because I subtracted 6 from both sides and then multiplied 4x5 which gave me the anser of 4???
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Question 227518: 1.Solve the given inequality. 7x – 7 > 3x – 8
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Question 227720: suppose it costs $5 to enter a carnival. Each ride costs $1.25. you have $15 to spend at the carnival. what is the greatest number of rides that you can go on?
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Question 227835: Mrs. Vinas has three daughters born in consecutive years. The sum of the ages of three is more than 56 years decreased by the age of the middle daughter. What are the least ages of the girls?
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Question 227413: This is in reference to Solving Multi-step Inequalities.
1) What is the answer (including steps to solve) to the following question: 7>5x-3 Seven is greater than or equal to 5x-3.
I came up with the answers x=2 AND x=-2.
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Question 227941: graph the solution of the inequality on the number line y>2
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Question 227986: What is the appropriate property of equality to solve this equation 7r/12 = -14
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Question 228237: what is the inequality to typing 65 words at the most per minute?
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Question 228342: 1/4(8y+4)-17=-1/2(4y-8) Solve
It has been determined that at the age of 10, a girl has reached 84.4%of her final adult height. Dana is 4ft 8in. at the age of 10. What will her final adult height be????
A store keeper goes to the bank to get $10.00 worth of change. She requests twice as many quarters as half dollars, twice as many dimes as quarters, three times as many nickels as dimes, and no pennies or dollars. How many of each coin did the storekeeper get?
Please help me ! Also show your work! So I can ! Thank You
Heather
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Question 228621: x2 +x / 1 - x > 0
I'm confused with my friend's answer! My answer is (- infinity, -1 ) U (0,1)
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Question 228642: 4j+3 < j+22 and j-3 < 2j-15
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Question 228780: the sum of two numbers is eighteen. The sum of three times the smalles and twice the larger is 44. Find the two numbers.
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Question 228844: (15)/(-7)c>(3)/(14)
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Question 228888: 2x + 36 < - 10x
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Question 228918: What do I do first to solve -x/-4 < -2
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Question 228916: -4x-2<8
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Question 229001: Solve: -0.1x < -5
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Question 229031: How can you use unmarked 7 quart and 4 quart containers to measure out exactly one quart? two quarts? three quarts? five quarts
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Question 229248: y+4<3

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Question 229290: Expenses. The sophomore class is planning a picnic. The cost of a permit to use a city park is $250. To pay for the permit, there is a fee of $.75 for each sophomore and $1.25 for each guest who is not a sophomore. Two hundred sophomores plan to attend. Write and solve an inequality to find how many guests must attend for the sophomores to pay for the permit.
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Question 229311: i need help in this problem i always get stuck and it confused me 2x-5(x-1)=3x+1
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Question 229345: m+8>12
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Question 230063: 7(4x-1)+3(12-5x)>4(3x+5)
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Question 230178: are the numbers: 0, -20, -13, -3
solutions of the inequality.... y-9>2y-4
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Question 230343: Please help in solving 3m-8>-30m+5m
I keep getting m > 4.3
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Question 230343: Please help in solving 3m-8>-30m+5m
I keep getting m > 4.3
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Question 230384: can you help me solve this and then graph it? we are solving inequalities.
2x^2-x-3 is < or = to 0
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Question 230426: Your quiz grades are 73, 75, 89, and 91. What is the lowest grade you can obtain on the last quiz and still achieve an average of at least of at 85? Solve.
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Question 230521: solve -2x > 1/9
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Question 230497: (y-10/y)raised to the 2 power+6(y-10/y)-27=0
Solve the equation by making an apropriate substitution.
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Question 230545: Solve this inequalities
1/x2 <= 1
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Question 230545: Solve this inequalities
1/x2 <= 1
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Question 230522: can u explain the steps on how to solve this please i got it wrong on my homework. I 3x+4 I -4=4
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Question 230492: A French horn student has a range of no more than 17 notes from the middle C. Let x = 0 correspond to middle C. Write an absolute value inequality that shows the range of notes the student is able to play.
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Question 231026: Solve each inequality. Write the answer using interval notation.
(a) 2 < |x − 4| < 8
(b) (x2 − 16)(x2 + 4x − 5) > 0
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Question 231026: Solve each inequality. Write the answer using interval notation.
(a) 2 < |x − 4| < 8
(b) (x2 − 16)(x2 + 4x − 5) > 0
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Question 231234: I Am Totaly Confused With Understanding On How To Solve Inequalities . I Know You Divide Or Multiply The Problem But Each Problem Is Different On Each Problem How Do I Know Weather I Multiply Or Divide The Problem In Question And Looking At Examlpes Im Not Quite Sure How The Answer Is Figured Out .
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Question 231662: Which of the points satisfy y-3 <_2x?
1. (0,0)
2. (1,5)
3. (-2,0)
A. 1, 2, and 3
B. 2 and 3 only
C. 1 and 2 only
D. 1 only
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