Sentence as inequality

Question

Three times a number r plus 8 is fewer than -12

Answer 1

Hi Aryelle. What we should do is take one part at a time.

Three times a number r = 3r.

Plus 8 is + 8.

Fewer than is <.

So our answer is 3r + 8 < - 12.

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