document.write( "Question 1039111: can you walk me through solving twenty minus negitive x is greater than or equal to 16? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "can you walk me through solving twenty minus negaive x is greater than or equal to 16?
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document.write( "Yes, I can.\r\n" );
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document.write( "20 - (-x) >= 16.   (1)\r\n" );
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document.write( "Distract 20 from both sides.  You will get an equivalent inequality\r\n" );
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document.write( "-(-x) >= 16-20,  or, which is the same\r\n" );
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document.write( "-(-x) >= -4.       (2)\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next, -(-x) = x, for any x. As a result, from  (2)  you have\r\n" );
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document.write( "  x >= -4.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is the final form.  It is your answer.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The set {x | x >= -4} is the solution of the original inequality (1).\r\n" );
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document.write( "You can represent it in other form:\r\n" );
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document.write( "the set [,) is the solution.\r\n" );
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