SOLUTION: How do you solve 4(3x-8)+2x<16 ? This prefreshman engineering program gives us hard equations & doesnt even explain it tous ! please tell me how step by step ...

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Question 623508: How do you solve 4(3x-8)+2x<16 ? This prefreshman engineering program gives us hard equations & doesnt even explain it tous ! please tell me how step by step ...
Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, josmiceli:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
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Start with the given inequality.

Distribute.

Combine like terms on the left side.

Add to both sides.

Combine like terms on the right side.

Divide both sides by to isolate .

Reduce.

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Answer:

So the solution is

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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is called an inequality
It says that the left side is less than the right side
Get on one side

Add to both sides

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I'll check with a calculator

I'll make to make the inequality true

This is true, if I didn't miscalculate