Question

Four times a number reduced by 3 is less than three times the number added to 5.find the greatest value of the number.

Answer 1

Answer:

We are given four times a number reduced by 3 which is less than three times the same number added to 5. This would give us the following with x being the number:

4x−3<3x+5

x−3<5

x<8

Here, the number has to be less than 8, and we are asked for the greatest value of x. Therefore, the greatest value is 7.9¯¯¯ . As a side note, if the number was an integer, the answer would have been 7 instead of 7.9¯¯¯ .