Question

Three times a number w is less than 18

Answer 1

In numbers, that would translate to 3w<18.

To figure out what w could be, you would get it by itself because it's the variable in the equation.

Divide 3 from both sides and you would then have w<6, because 18 divided by 3 is 6.

The answer would be 6, because 6 is less than 18.