The phrase less than or equal to divides the sentence into what should be on the left-hand side and what should be on the right-hand side of the inequality.
7-c≤-3
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Every inequality has an inequality symbol and values or expressions on either side of this symbol. In this exercise, we have the phrase less than or equal to, so we can identify that the inequality symbol should be ≤.
clessthan7 ≤ -3On the left-hand side, we have one key phrase: less than. These words tell us the operations that will be used in our inequality. Less than indicates subtraction.
c less than 7
7 - c
On the right-hand side, we have a constant. Putting these sides together, we have a complete inequality.
c less than 7 is less than or equal to -3.
7 - c ≤ -3
