SOLUTION: one half the sum of a number and six is less than 25. what is the number?

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Question 26662: one half the sum of a number and six is less than 25. what is the number?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When dealing with inequalities, you won't get just one number for the answer, you'll get a range of numbers. Let n = the range of numbers.
Multiply both sides by 2.
Subtract 6 from both sides.

As you can see, the answer is the range of all the numbers that are less than 44, i.e. 43, 42, 41, 40,...

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