SOLUTION: describe and correct the error in writing the verbal sentence as an equation or an inequality. 14. the sum of a number n and 4 is no more than 13. n+4<13

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Question 647897: describe and correct the error in writing the verbal sentence as an equation or an inequality.
14. the sum of a number n and 4 is no more than 13.
n+4<13
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If is no more than 13, it still could be 13, but lets you get as close as you want to 13 but never actually equal to 13.

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Answer by Algebraic(50)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You would need to put a small line under the inequality sign.
The answer can be 13, so you need to make it n+4≤13
Putting a little line under the 'less than' sign now means that n+4 is less than or equal to '13,' which is what the verbal sentence states.
Your original equation didn't have that little line, so it meant that the sum of a number n and 4 is no less than 13.
Now, we made the verbal statement and the equation the same to each other.
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