Question

Can someone help me solve for x in this equation?? 25+3.50x < 17+7.50x

Answer 1

So we want to solve like if it was just a basic equation. We start with 25+3.50x<17+7.50x and get rid of our smallest x. That means we get rid of the 3.50x by subtracting from both sides and our new equation is 25<17+4x. Let’s get our x by itself shall we, so let’s subtract 17 from both sides and we get 8<4x. Finally all we do is divide by 4 and just like that 2