Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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7. Writing and Graphing Inequalities
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Exercise 27 Page 388

Substitute -5 into the given inequality and then simplify.

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We can determine whether -5 is a solution by substituting it into the inequality and simplifying. a ≤ 0 ⇒ -5≤0 ✓ Since -5 is less than or equal to 0, we got a true statement. This means that a=-5 is a solution of the inequality.