Help if you can!!! I will MEDAL best explanation/answer!!!!

Solve for x.

-ax + 2b 8

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

anonymous · Answer

oh no not another one!!

anonymous · Answer

haha yea I guess so! :/ XD

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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.. :/

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

you got an item number for this question?

anonymous · Answer

what is MEWA stand for?

anonymous · Answer

Metro East Web Academy

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

hahaha okayy but don't mention my name! haha

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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 
$$x<\frac{2b-8}{a}$$

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

ok good luck

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

yw

anonymous · Answer

Thanks!!