SOLUTION: when four times a number is subtracted from 100 the answer must be less than twenty-five. What is the smallest integer that satisfies this condition?

Question 1172930: when four times a number is subtracted from 100 the answer must be less than twenty-five. What is the smallest integer that satisfies this condition?
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100 - 4x < 25

    - 4x < -75

      4x > 75      // flip < to > after multiplying both sides by -1

       x > 75/4

       x > 18.75



The smallest integer that satisfies this condition is 

 

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