Question

Marcie solved the following inequality, and her work is shown below:

−2(x − 5) − 12 ≤ 4 + 6(x + 3)
−2x + 10 − 12 ≤ 4 + 6x + 18
−2x − 2 ≤ 6x + 22
−8x ≤ 24
x ≤ −3

What mistake did Marcie make in solving the inequality?

Answer 1

are there answers that came with it?

Answer 2

well first off you can tell that she needs to swap the sign, so it would be ≥ so do the math problem
and find were else she went wrong

Answer 3

Marcie solved the following inequality, and her work is shown below:

−2(x − 5) − 12 ≤ 4 + 6(x + 3)
−2x + 10 − 12 ≤ 4 + 6x + 18
−2x − 2 ≤ 6x + 22
−8x ≤ 24
x ≤ −3

What mistake did Marcie make in solving the inequality?

She subtracted 6x from both sides when she should have added 2x.
She added 2 to both sides when she should have subtracted 22.
When dividing by −8, she did not change the ≤ to ≥.
She did not make a mistake.

Answer 4

so is it C?

Answer 5

@mbicknell

Answer 6

yeah it is c