Video Transcript
If 𝑎 plus forty-six is greater
than or equal to thirty-nine, then blank.
Here we can solve this inequality
for 𝑎. In order to do that, we need to
subtract forty-six from both sides of the inequality. On the left side, the forty-six
cancels. And on the right-hand side,
thirty-nine minus forty-six is negative seven. So 𝑎 is greater than or equal to
negative seven.
Let’s go ahead and make sense of
this first. So if eight plus forty-six is
greater than or equal to thirty-nine, we found that numbers greater than or equal to
negative seven will hold true for this inequality.
So since our answer was 𝑎 is
greater than or equal to negative seven, that means we can plug in negative seven or
greater than negative seven. So negative seven plus forty-six
is thirty-nine. Thirty-nine is greater than or
equal to thirty-nine because it’s actually equal to thirty-nine. So if we’ve plugged in numbers that
were bigger than negative seven, we wouldn’t get an answer that’s bigger than
thirty-nine. And that’s okay. Say it was forty. Forty is greater than or equal to
thirty-nine. So if 𝑎 plus forty-six is greater
than or equal to thirty-nine, then 𝑎 is greater than or equal to negative
seven.