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  • Pre-Algebra
  • Multi-Step Equations and Inequalities
  • Solving Inequalities by Multiplying and Dividing

This topic is in the 'Multi-Step Equations and Inequalities' section. Once you know how to solve one and two-step equations, it's time to move on to more complex equations that take lots of steps before you get an answer. The good news is that the individual steps that you can take are limited, and so once you get a feel for solving these kinds of problems, they aren't that much more challenging than one and two-step equations. And if you've got equations down, then inequalities are the next place where you'll find a challenge. Inequalities look a lot like equations actually, but instead of an equal sign, you have to work with an inequality symbol like >, <, ≥, or ≤. In this section you'll see how a lot of the techniques that work for equations work for inequalities, and so you could just start off the problem by imagining that the inequality symbol is replaced be an equals sign. There is one major difference though, and that has to do with multiplying or dividing both sides of the inequality by a negative. When you do that the inequality flips, so make sure you watch out for that in the tutorials for this section!

This topic, Solving Inequalities by Dividing, is a part of Solving Inequalities by Multiplying and Dividing.

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