MikeDecorah MikeDecorah
  • 04-03-2015
  • Mathematics
contestada

Find the student’s error in solving the following inequality.
31 < –5x + 6
25 < –5x
–5 < x

Respuesta :

Panoyin
Panoyin Panoyin
  • 05-03-2015
31 < -5x + 6
-6             -6
25 < -5x
-5      -5
-5 < x
x > -5


Answer Link
tkmaplethorpepaykzs
tkmaplethorpepaykzs tkmaplethorpepaykzs
  • 24-07-2018

The answer is c,he should have flipped the inequality.


Because he multiplied/ divided both sides by a negative.

Answer Link

Otras preguntas

Solve for x. 6x - 2 = 5x - 7 - 3x
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
A 1-gram sample or a compound is added to 100 grams of H2O(l) and the resulting mixture is then thoroughly stirred. Some of the compound is then separated from
What is the gram-formula mass of Fe(NO3)3? (1) 146 g/mol (3) 214 g/mol (2) 194 g/mol (4) 242 g/mol
Which term represents a type of nuclear reaction? (1) condensation (2) vaporization (3) single replacement (4) natural transmutation
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
What is the name of the President of the United States now?
round 75.4614 to the nearest thousandth
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.