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Algebra.Com's Answer #766379 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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x-10/6 >= x-5/9 + 7/18
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document.write( "You didn't put in any parentheses so there is no way for us to tell what's\r\n" );
document.write( "in the numerators.  The way you have it means\r\n" );
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document.write( "and if we subtract x from both sides, there are no variables.\r\n" );
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document.write( "which becomes\r\n" );
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document.write( "But that's false, so I know you didn't mean what you wrote.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Did you mean parentheses around x-10 and x-5, like this?\r\n" );
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document.write( "(x-10)/6 >= (x-5)/9 + 7/18\r\n" );
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document.write( "If so that would mean this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply through by the LCD of 18\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve that just like an equation.\r\n" );
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