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landdenaw 2022-06-27 Answered
How do you solve $a+9\le -14$ ?
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## Answers (1)

Bruno Hughes
Answered 2022-06-28 Author has 25 answers
Step 1
You solve inequalities just like equations.
$a+9\le -14$
Similar to solving a variable in an equation, you have to make the variable by itself. To do this, we need to subtract the 9 from both sides of the inequality.
So it becomes:
$a\le -23$
This means that a is less than or equal to -23.
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