Solving for the nearest whole number

Question

6x + 1 And. 5x + 10 what is the value of x round to the nearest whole number

Answer 1

if you meant to set them equal, then:

6x+1 = 5x +10

6x-5x = 10-9

x =1 which doesn't require any rounding

or maybe you meant

6x+1 +5x +10 = 0

then

11x =-11

x =-1 (but you want nearest whole number and whole numbers are non-negative, so it "rounds" to zero)

or maybe you intended 2 separate problems

6x+1 = 0

x =-1/6 which rounds off to zero for nearest whole number

and

5x+10 =0

x =-10/5 = -2 which rounds to zero for nearest "whole number" which is very strange, and almost looks like a trick quesiton if that was what the problem wanted. Or maybe a mistake in the problem. That method could make the national debt like it = 0, if you rounded -30+ trillion to the "nearest whole number" Just wipe the huge debt away as if it didn't exist.

whole numbers are non-negative integers which are the "natural numbers" plus zero = the set {0,1,2,3, ...}