im having trouble in math...

Question

x-16 is greater than 8 What does x equal???

Answer 1

In this case, we would not be looking for any x since we're dealing with a greater than. Instead, we'll need a range of x-values that can work

For example, x = 40 would be included in our range since 40 - 16 = 26 which is greater than 8

It's a similar idea to solving x - 16 = 8. Since we have -16, we can get rid of it by adding 16 to both sides instead. Then we would have x is greater than 8 + 16 = 24

So our answer would be x is greater than 24