The phrase greater than divides the sentence into what should be on the left-hand side and what should be on the right-hand side of the inequality.
p> 5
Practice makes perfect
We are given a verbal expression and we want to write an inequality that it represents.
A numberp is greater than5
Every inequality has an inequality symbol and values or expressions on either side of this symbol. In this exercise, we have the phrase greater than, so we can identify that the inequality symbol should be >.
A numberp > 5
Now, we can write A number p as p.
p > 5
