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# 6.2: Inequalities with Addition and Subtraction

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Suppose your favorite baseball team had wins last year, and this year it vows to win 10 more games. It also promises that the number of its wins this year will be greater than or equal 85. Could you determine how many wins the team had last year?

### Inequalities Using Addition or Subtraction

To solve inequalities, you need the Addition Property of Inequality.

The Addition Property of Inequality states that for all real numbers and :

If , then .

If , then .

The two properties above are also true for or .

Because subtraction can also be thought of as “add the opposite,” these properties also work for subtraction situations.

Just like one-step equations, the goal is to isolate the variable, meaning to get the variable alone on one side of the inequality symbol. To do this, you will cancel the operations using inverses.

#### Let's solve the following inequalities:

1. Solve for .

To isolate the variable , you must cancel “subtract 3” using its inverse operation, addition.

Now, check your answer. Choose a number less than 13 and substitute it into your original inequality. If you choose 0, and substitute it you get:

What happens at 13? What happens with numbers greater than 13?

1. Solve for .

The solution is shown below in a graph:

1. Solve for : .

### Examples

#### Example 1

Earlier, you were told that your favorite baseball team had  wins last year and this year it vows to win 10 more games. The team also promises that the number of its wins this year will be greater than or equal to 85. How many wins did the team have last year?

This year, if the team wins 10 more games than it did last year, it will win  games. They promised that this will be greater than or equal to 85. The inequality representing this situation would then be:

To solve this, subtract 10 from both sides of the inequality:

Therefore, the team had at least 75 wins last year.

Solve for : .

### Review

Solve each inequality and graph the solution on a number line.

Mixed Review

1. Write an equation containing (3, –6) and (–2, –2).
2. Simplify: .
3. Graph on a coordinate plane.
4. varies directly as . When . Find when .
5. Rewrite in slope-intercept form: .

To see the Review answers, open this PDF file and look for section 6.2.

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### Vocabulary Language: English Spanish

For all real numbers $a, \ b,$ and $c$: If $x < a$, then $x + b < a + b$. If $x < a$, then $x - c < a - c$.

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