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How Do You Solve a Decimal Inequality Using Division with Negative Numbers?

Solve the inequality -17.4x ≤ -45.24

Summary

  1. x is a variable
  2. The inequality flipped because we divided by a negative number

Notes

    1. x is a variable
    2. We need to move everything that is not x to the other side of the inequality
    1. A negative divided by a negative is a positive
    1. We need to multiply by a fancy form of 1 to get rid of the decimal in the denominator