Question

How to write y is no more than -8

Answer 1

Which of these symbols mean "no more than"
\[\Huge <,\le,=,\ge,>\]

Answer 2

≥

Answer 3

^that symbol also means 'greater than or equal to'

Answer 4

They throw these weird words at you sometimes.
You need to get comfortable with what they mean:

no more than -> less than or equal to
more than -> greater than

Answer 5

when you say "y is no more than -8", you are also saying "y is at most -8"

so -8 is the largest you can go. The value of y could be -8, but it cannot be any larger. Think of this as the "ceiling" so to speak.

Answer 6

so that means \[\Large y \le -8\] since this allows y to be either -8 or values smaller than -8 (but not allow y to be larger than -8)