document.write( "Question 164642: I'm lost here. Can you help. Once I know how to do one problem I can usually do the rest but my book doesn't explain this one and I am taking online classes so no teacher to ask. Thanks.
\n" ); document.write( "Solve for x. Collect xs on the LEFT side. The solution should be presented with x first, the correct inequality symbol, then the number.
\n" ); document.write( "2(x + 3) > 20 \r
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\n" ); document.write( "Yes, x on the left, everything else on the right.
\n" ); document.write( "Remember, whatever you do to one side of the equation, you must do to the other side.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"x%2B3-3%3E10-3\".....Subtract 3 from both sides.
\n" ); document.write( "\"x%3E7\".....Final answer.
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\n" ); document.write( "Pick an x>7 and x<7 and plug it into your inequality.
\n" ); document.write( "Let's pick x=8 and x=0.
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\n" ); document.write( "x=8, should be true since 8>7.
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\n" ); document.write( "x=0, should be false since 0<7.
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\n" ); document.write( "Both tests check out.
\n" ); document.write( "Good answer.
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