Irene R. answered 11/10/19
BS in Mechanical Engineering and Certified math teacher for 13 years
The words "is smaller than" imply less than or the symbol, <
If we use x to represent the number, then
27 < 5x + 7
To solve this inequality, use inverses operations:
27 -7 < 5x + 7 - 7
20 < 5x
20/5 < 5x/5
4 < x
This can be interpreted as "all the numbers that are greater 4" are solutions to this inequality.