Question

The Mali Empire of West Africa was known far and wide for the great wealth of its rulers. The empire fell in the year 1 6 1 0 16101610. Let x xx represent any year. Write an inequality in terms of x xx and 1 6 1 0 16101610 that is true only for values of x xx that represent years after the year the Mali Empire fell.

Answer 1

The year of the empire fell = 1610.

We are given x as a variable that represents the year after the given year 1610.

We need to setup an inequality for this situation.

Please note: The year after the year number 1610 will have a number  that greater than 1610.

Let us make a statement for inequality to be written.

"The year after the 1610 is greater than 1610".

The year after the 1610 is x and gerater than symbol is >.

So, we can setup an inequality as:

x > 1610  : Read as x is greater than 1610.