## anonymous one year ago Help if you can!!! I will MEDAL best explanation/answer!!!! Solve for x. -ax + 2b > 8

1. anonymous

oh no not another one!!

2. anonymous

haha yea I guess so! :/ XD

3. anonymous

I just really need help on this one, like a detailed explanation on how to solve for x..

4. anonymous

you cannot, i repeat CANNOT solve an inequality with variable coefficients i will tell you what they want you to say, but only after if you tell me where the question comes from whoever wrote it is either extremely careless or doesn't know any math

5. anonymous

Umm, it's from one of my math quizzes for school.. I didn't write it, the school did lol

6. anonymous

I don't know why they give it to us if it's wrong but I don't have a say in what problems they give us.. :/

7. anonymous

i know you didn't i will answer you when you tell me exactly where the question comes from on line school? in class school, where exactly

8. anonymous

from an online school called MEWA... it's a Algebra review quiz and I am stuck on how to solve it

9. anonymous

Is that detailed explanation enough?? I don't know what else to say about where it came from.. :/

10. anonymous

you got an item number for this question?

11. anonymous

what is MEWA stand for?

12. anonymous

13. anonymous

we have answer choices but it is in image form and I don't know how to post it

14. anonymous

ok i will write to them now here is what they want you to do

15. anonymous

hahaha okayy but don't mention my name! haha

16. anonymous

$-ax+2b>8$first subtract $$2b$$ from both sides , get $-ax=8-2b$

17. anonymous

okay, that's what I was thinking I had to do... do you have to divide A from both sides?

18. anonymous

then they want you to do this ( and this is the mistake) they want you to divide by $$-a$$ and say "since $$-a$$ is negative, i should switch the inequality" and write $x<\frac{8-2b}{-a}$ or $x<\frac{2b-8}{a}$

19. anonymous

that is what they want from you hope the steps are clear

20. anonymous

Yea that's what they taught us to do, it's a specific rule of theirs..

21. anonymous

ok good luck

22. anonymous

Yea they are! and thank you, that was pretty easy :)

23. anonymous

yw

24. anonymous

Thanks!!