Question

Help Me algebra sucks

Answer 1

ok so first we are going to distribute the -3 to everything inside the parentheses.
so we have -3(x+1) .
-3*x=-3x and -3 x 1=-3
so we now have -3x-3+5x<-7
then we combine like terms (-3x+5x=2x)
now we have 2x-3<-7.
we must then add 3 to both sides to get the variable on a side by itself.
so when adding 3 to both sides we get
2x<-4
now all you have to do is solve
\[2x<-4\]